In 1988 under the impetus of the Wallonia region, IAL Space witnessed the birth in its own neighbourhood and with members of its own personnel, of the Spacebel twins, two space systems commercial companies:

-Spacebel Instrumentation, which filed for bankruptcy in 1997;

-Spacebel Computing which became a European specialist of intelligent systems in orbit, notably the PROBA micro-satellites “made in Belgium” of the ESA technological programme.

In 1991 the founding director of IAL Space reached retirement age: Professor Monfils was replaced by Claude Jamar, one of his students and researchers. From April 1992, IAL Space showed new ambition by taking the name of the Liège Space Centre (CSL). Its objective is to make an essential contribution to the economic reconversion of the Liège industrial area.

In 2001, Wallonia Space Logistics (WSL) took shape with the first incubator in Europe of young companies with products and services with a high added value that are derived from research work and developments in the techniques of space and engineering science. For his part, A. Monfils created his own small company, NEOC (New Electro-Optical Concepts), which allows him to remain active in the area of optical instruments.