Fraunhofer IPM, Freiburg, Germany  /  February 04, 2026  -  February 05, 2026

New Space Acceleration Days

Fraunhofer invites New Space ventures, established space stakeholders, and interested companies to join an open exchange and matchmaking.

Share your needs, experiences, and ideas.

We provide space know-how and cross-disciplinary capabilities in development, design, testing, production, funding, and policy. 

 

Let us jointly accelerate the New Space economy and build a robust manufacturing and testing ecosystem!

 

An exhibition will accompany the event. Please use the registration form to register as an exhibitor. If you have any questions, please contact Markus Winkler.

Program

Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026

10:00 h
 REGISTRATION
10:20 h Opening & Welcome
10:30 h Keynote
Dr. Siegbert Martin, CTO, Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG
11:00 h Keynote
Dr. Manfred Wittenstein, WITTENSTEIN SE, Eigentümer
11:30 h Industrialization and Scalable Production in New Space – Accelerating the European NewSpace Ecosystem
Dr. Stephan Busch, Fraunhofer Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI, Dr. Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel, Fraunhofer AVIATION & SPACE
12:00 h
 Lunch
13:30 h On the way to the NewSpace Factory: Challenges and Solutions in the Industrial Production for Space
Florian Grabi, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA
14:00 h Willi Parsch, Head of Innovation & Product Strategy, Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG
14:30 h Coffee
15:15 h

Panel discussion: From Policy to Investment – Scaling Europe’s Space Economy
Confirmed speakers:
- Tomas Jonsson, European Commission, Team Leader of the CASSINI Initiative
- Arianit Preci, DLR, Head of Department for Robotics, Digitalization and AI
- Speaker (Name tba), ESA, Innovation and Industrialization
- Tentative Speaker, representative from Venture Capital Sector

 
16:30 h Lab tours at Fraunhofer IPM
18:00 h
 End of day one

Thursday, Feb 5, 2026

09:00 h Participants Pitch Session: Vision – Challenges – Lessons Learned
a.o. ZARM Technik, Connektica, ATT Umweltsimulation, …
10:00 h
 cOFFEE AND NETWORKING
11:00 h Marius Bierdel, Co-Founder, ConstellR GmbH

11:30 h		 Dr. Martin Langer, CEO/CTO, OroraTech GmbH
12:00 h LUNCH

13:30 h

 Dr. Franz Georg Hey, CTO, LEOspace GmbH
14:00 h Enabling New Space Supply Chains – Space Logistics
Dr. Axel T. Schulte, Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML
14:30 h Wrap up
15:00 H END OF WORKSHOP