📋 Tender Overview
November 18, 2025
MUNICH Bavarias Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger has welcomed the entry of automotive supplier Brose into the satellite business. The company is launching strategic partnerships with the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst Mach Institute (EMI), and the tech company Berlin Space Consortium (BSC). The aim of the collaboration is to jointly develop small satellites and key components for space travel as well as highly efficient electric propulsion systems and to produce them in industrial series production. The production location will be Wurzburg. Aiwanger: This is a real future perspective for the region and the companies. Our preliminary discussions were successful. Bavarias companies and research institutions in particular contribute to Germanys technological strength. In view of increasing demand, we in Germany must be able to build satellites quickly, efficiently and with high quality. Broses collaboration with Fraunhofer EMI and the BSC is ideal for this: Brose brings in its great expertise in automation and series production to make satellite construction sustainable. This means that the space location wins Wurzburg continues to become more attractive and becomes an even more important building block in the Bavarian space ecosystem. We need these reports especially now, when a lot of industrial substance is being lost. In the past there had been strategy discussions between the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and the minister personally with the partners involved in order to initiate this cooperation. Wurzburg and the region are already a central hub for satellite-based technologies. With the Fraunhofer Society - represented by the Institute for Silicate Research and recently also the Ernst Mach Institute (EMI) - as well as the Center for Telematics and the University of Wurzburg on the research side and several high-performance companies and start-ups on the industrial side, the location has a broad base of expertise. The Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs is specifically strengthening this area: Among other things, around two million euros will flow into a joint project by Fraunhofer (Institute for Short-Term Dynamics, Ernst Mach Institute, EMI, Institute for Silicate Research ISC and Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS) and the Center for Telematics ZfT to develop a demonstrator for small satellites in very low earth orbits (VLEO - very low earth orbits). This technology is considered particularly forward-looking, for example for earth observation, communication and security-relevant applications.
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