Overview
- Consultancy Roland Berger projects the global market for space-based infrastructure and services to quadruple to €2 trillion by 2040.
- Germany is committing €5.4 billion to ESA programs, with the funds returning fully to domestic industry, SMEs and start-ups, according to Research Minister Dorothee Bär.
- According to vbw and Roland Berger, Bavaria hosts roughly 38,000 workers across more than 550 space companies generating about €12 billion annually, with around 80% of Germany’s industrial space activity concentrated in the state.
- Bavaria’s 2019 Hightech-Agenda totals about €7 billion, including expansion at TU Munich where Europe’s largest aerospace faculty is being built.
- Dorothee Bär stresses that orbital systems now form part of critical infrastructure that must be protected and defended.