Four days of executive summits in central Paris run by Novaspace, where satellite operators, manufacturers, launch providers, investors and defence buyers meet at chief executive level.
World Space Business Week, formerly World Satellite Business Week and still widely known as WSBW, is the annual executive gathering of the commercial space industry, held in Paris in September. The 2026 edition runs from 14 to 17 September at the Hotel du Collectionneur. It is organised by Novaspace, the consultancy formed from the merger of Euroconsult and SpaceTec Partners. The organiser reports participation from more than 600 organisations across 60 countries with over 200 speakers. Two attached summits run inside the week: the Space Defense and Security Summit on 15 and 16 September and the Space Innovation Summit on 16 September.
This is a deal and strategy week, not a trade show. There is no exhibition floor of any size. Delegates come to hear satellite operators, launch providers, manufacturers and constellation owners state their commercial position for the coming year, and to hold meetings around those statements. Novaspace's own market forecasts are released and debated during the week, which gives the event an analytical spine that a purely commercial conference lacks. Pricing enforces the format: a full pass costs several thousand euros, which filters attendance to decision level.
WSBW sits at the opposite end of the circuit from Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen. Bremen is a supply chain exhibition with hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of engineers. Paris is a few hundred executives in hotel conference rooms with no stands at all. A company doing both is buying market direction in September and supply chain contracts in November.
The event was called World Satellite Business Week for most of its history. Novaspace rebranded it to World Space Business Week to reflect a scope that now includes launch, defence, exploration and in-orbit services rather than satellites alone.
No exhibition floor in the trade-fair sense. The format is conference sessions, private meetings and hosted social events.
Novaspace was formed by merging Euroconsult, the long-established French space consultancy that founded the event, with SpaceTec Partners. Its market research on satellite manufacturing, launch and connectivity underpins much of the programme.
The space industry's boardroom week, small, expensive and senior, where operators and manufacturers set commercial direction before the trade fairs see it.
Delegate passes are sold on the official website. Published 2026 rates include a full World Space Business Week pass at 3,740 euros with access to all summits and social events, a 3,080 euro pass without lunches and cocktail access, and a combined pass covering the week plus the Space Innovation Summit and the Space Defense and Security Summit at 4,532 euros. Sponsorship packages are quoted separately.
14 to 17 September 2026 at the Hotel du Collectionneur, 51-57 rue de Courcelles, 75008 Paris.
Published 2026 rates run from 3,080 euros to 4,532 euros depending on inclusions and attached summits.
Yes. The programme runs in English throughout despite the Paris location.
| Official website | https://wsbw.com/ |
| Tickets and registration | https://wsbw.com/attend/tickets-registration/ |
| Organiser | https://nova.space/ |