Welcome back, this time from ILA 2026 in Berlin, where Torsten Kriening sits down with Adel Haddoud, CEO and co-founder of Infinite Orbits, a company operating right at the frontier where commercial space meets national defense.
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For years, this domain was all about sensing, cataloging, and situational awareness – knowing what’s in orbit. Infinite Orbits is in the business of acting. The conversation gets straight to the uncomfortable heart of it: rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) are the same technology whether you’re extending a friendly satellite’s life or shadowing someone else’s. Where’s the line between a service and a threat? Adel is refreshingly candid about deterrence, jamming, docking, and why getting close to an asset in orbit is rarely a friendly gesture.
He also explains why now – with unwanted approaches in LEO, MEO and GEO having quadrupled in recent years – RPO has shifted from niche to strategic necessity. Infinite Orbits is putting that capability into orbit: Orbit Guard inspector satellites heading to GEO in late 2027, and the Tom and Jerry demonstration mission in LEO, where one satellite chases another (and could chase much bigger fish if asked). Adel makes his case for Europe as a single ecosystem rather than a patchwork of national programs, with a German office now forming out of Munich.
And he leaves us with a promise: in two years, a photo taken in orbit from less than 500 metres from a GEO satellite — something that hasn’t been done before in Europe.
Candid, strategic, and a genuine glimpse of where European space is heading. Press play.
