About

Built by people who have run aerospace programmes.

nuantu space is a Munich-based company building shared space infrastructure with African partners.

Why we exist

Vision and mission.

Our vision

African space capability that the world can rely on. Africa as a supplier to the global space economy, not only a customer of it.

Our mission

Create the conditions for African space capability to be sovereign, connected and trusted, with agencies, universities, industry and partners.

Our values

How we work.

Listen first

We start from your priorities. Decisions stay with you.

Build together

Shared risk, shared credit. Partnership, not aid.

Engineer with rigour

Standards before claims. We test what we promise.

Build to last

Skills and institutions that outlive any one project.

Founders

Aerospace leadership and certification in one team.

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Dr. Armel Djeukou

Co-Founder and CEO

Leads programmes, systems engineering, partnerships

  • 20+ years in aerospace leadership. Former SVP at Airbus with multi-billion P&L responsibility, including Group Digital Transformation.
  • Led the Airbus drone (UAS) business unit, including the Zephyr high-altitude platform, and Premium Aerotec central operations.
  • Board and chair roles across Airbus entities. Member, Innovation Leadership Council, The Conference Board.
  • PhD, TU Hamburg. Master’s, RWTH Aachen. MIT and HBS executive programmes.
  • Raised in Cameroon, based in Germany.
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Dr. Randolph Odi

Co-Founder and CTO

Leads qualification, structures engineering, certification

  • 25+ years in aerospace engineering and leadership. Head of a certified aircraft design organisation (EASA Part 21J). Former VP Aircraft Engineering at SR Technics.
  • Space heritage: RUAG Space (LISA Pathfinder, BepiColombo mechanisms), Ariane 5 testing, A400M and A380 structures at Airbus.
  • PhD Materials Engineering, Cranfield. Global EMBA, IESE. Structures Technical Committee, EUCASS. Board, Swiss Association of Aeronautical Sciences.
  • Raised in Côte d’Ivoire, based in Switzerland.
Standards and ecosystem

Engineered with partners.

Reference standards

ECSS for space engineering and quality, ISO 9100 for aerospace quality systems, ISO/IEC 17025 for test laboratories.

Partner ecosystem

European test and facility industry, satellite platform providers, African agencies and universities, development finance and EU programmes. Names are shared case by case.

nuantu space GmbH · Tal 44, 80331 München, Germany · HRB 315072

Let’s build this together.

If you are building, funding or regulating space capability in Africa, we would like to talk.