Review on the Munich Space Summit 2026
The Munich Space Summit 2026 took place from March 23 to March 27. As a merger of the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit and the Munich New Space Summit, the new format had a remarkable premiere. Around 850 visitors from 32 countries attended the conference, which featured five outstanding days packed with 22 discussion sessions, several key panels, deep dives, and three keynote speeches.
The Munich Space Summit has proven to be a truly global gathering, with participants joining from New Zealand to North America, and across Europe from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean. With exhibitors and speakers traveling from Asia, Europe, and North America, it’s clear we struck the right balance of topics.
The exceptional programme was made possible by the participation of high-level speakers from politics, industry, and research, including State-Minister Florian Herrmann, Ministerial Director Markus Wittmann, Tobias Gotthardt, State Secretary, Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Seppo Aaltonen, VP, NATO & Nordics Mission Systems – Iceye, General Armin Fleischmann, Head of Division, Planning (CIR) and Digitalization, Cyber and Information Domain Service Headquarters, Bundeswehr, Josef Aschbacher, Director General, European Space Agency (ESA), Rodrigo da Costa, Executive Director, European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), Cécile Gaubert, General Counsel, Exotrail, Indulis Kalnins, CEO, Rocket Factory Augsburg, Klaus Michel, VP – Deputy Head of Space System Germany, Airbus Defence & Space, Mattia Moscardino, CEO Germany, GMV, Rainer Malmberg, Head of Business Program Department, IABG, Luisa Buinhas, Co-Founder & CPO, Vyoma, Ilaria Martini, Head of Navigation and Cyberresilience, Leonardo Space Division, Tyler Reid, Co-Founder & CTO, Xona Space Systems, as well as representatives of the European Commission and international space agencies such as EUSPA, CNES, ASI, JAXA, ISRO, and KASA.
The discussions and speeches covered a wide range of topics. From the growing role of start-ups, private capital and agile technologies in shaping the commercial space landscape to international perspectives from space agiencies, research institutions and industry leaders to the future of global navigation satellite systems, robust PNT frameworks and the critical role of navigation technologies for autonomous systems, mobility and infrastructure resilience.
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Partners
The University of the Bundeswehr Munich (UniBw M), founded in 1973, provides future military officers with civilian higher education. The degree programs are reflected in high-level research from social sciences and humanities to a broad spectrum of engineering sciences. The Institute of Space Technology and Space Applications (ISTA), part of the University’s research center SPACE, has led satellite and inertial navigation research since 1983, contributing to Galileo and receiver development. ISTA hosts key events and maintains strong ties to the international GNSS community.
The Institute of Communications and Navigation can now look back on a long history. Even in its early years, the Institute played a key role in space programs such as the HELIOS mission to the sun and the construction of the first European telecommunications satellite, Symphonie. Since then, it has been involved in numerous pioneering aerospace developments and projects.
Organizers
Founded in 2010, Munich Aerospace is Bavaria’s research network for aerospace. It connects leading universities, research institutes and companies through joint projects, graduate programmes and knowledge exchange. As initiator of the Munich New Space Summit, Munich Aerospace created a new platform to bring together experts, entrepreneurs and policymakers around the opportunities and challenges of commercial space exploration.
The Institut für Technik Intelligenter Systeme (ITIS, Institute for Intelligent Systems Technology) is a recognized affiliated institute of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. It was founded in 1993 as an association by professors of the university for the purpose of promoting science, teaching and studies in the broad field of intelligent systems technology.
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