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Fraunhofer

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Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is a leading European research organization playing a significant role in the space industry. It acts as a system provider, developing components and integrating them into systems for customers like the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission. Fraunhofer's activities span areas like new materials, satellite communications, earth observation, autonomous systems, and digital services for designing space hardware, contributing to both national and European space programs.

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Plymouth, Michigan, United States
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CIRA’s testing campaign exposed Space Rider’s body flap to a high-velocity impact at Fraunhofer EMI to simulate a micrometeorite or orbital debris strike.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Apr 16, 2026CIRA Tests Space Rider Reentry Performance with Damaged Heat Shield

ESA used its ground station network, optical observation data from Neuraspace and Sybilla Technologies, and radar data from Fraunhofer FHR’s TIRA system to track the Coronagraph spacecraft’s orbit and attitude motion.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.2Mar 22, 2026ESA Regains Contact With Lost Proba-3 Spacecraft

The companies that participated in the QKD demonstration include MO Space and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI).

GeneralValue 2.0Feb 27, 2026Mynaric Demos QKD Comms With COTS Tech

Fraunhofer FHR captured the TIRA radar image of the Chinese ZhuQue-3 upper stage at 10:30 local time.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Jan 30, 2026Sorry for yet another lapse in news coverage as I was busy lately, & the Chinese seem to be too w/ all planned late January launches all slipping far away. Let’s start w/ this radar image in the final hours of existence of the 1st @LandSpace_Tech ZQ-3 2nd stage before re-entry…

Fraunhofer FHR acquired the TIRA radar image on behalf of WRLageZ.

RelationshipsValue 2.8Jan 30, 2026Sorry for yet another lapse in news coverage as I was busy lately, & the Chinese seem to be too w/ all planned late January launches all slipping far away. Let’s start w/ this radar image in the final hours of existence of the 1st @LandSpace_Tech ZQ-3 2nd stage before re-entry…

Fraunhofer FHR used its space-surveillance radar TIRA to capture a radar image of the ZhuQue-3 upper stage.

CapabilityValue 4.0Jan 30, 2026Sorry for yet another lapse in news coverage as I was busy lately, & the Chinese seem to be too w/ all planned late January launches all slipping far away. Let’s start w/ this radar image in the final hours of existence of the 1st @LandSpace_Tech ZQ-3 2nd stage before re-entry…

NordSpace is conducting a collaborative R&D project with the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology and German engineering firm SWMS to integrate high-speed laser deposition and AI-driven path planning into its production line.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 4.2Jan 22, 2026NordSpace receives $335k grant for additive manufacturing development

The initiative includes an £8 million investment in Fraunhofer UK’s applied photonics center in Glasgow.

FinancialRelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Dec 5, 2025Latest News

Fraunhofer EMI maintains light-gas guns at its facilities in Freiburg and Efringen-Kirchen for simulating hypervelocity impacts.

CapabilityValue 4.0Nov 14, 2025The Exploration Company Tests Nyx Micrometeoroid Shielding

The W-Cube mission was conducted in collaboration with a consortium of leading European institutions and companies, including the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 3.0Oct 1, 2025Missionsende nach erfolgreicher Technologiedemonstration

The GaN HEMTs were developed, fabricated, and characterized within the in-house semiconductor line at the Fraunhofer IAF.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Sep 10, 2025Halbleiter-Technologie erreicht Rekord-Effizienz

The GaN power amplifier HEMTs developed at Fraunhofer IAF enable more compact and energy-efficient communication systems for satellites.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Sep 10, 2025Halbleiter-Technologie erreicht Rekord-Effizienz

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics (IAF) has developed high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) based on the wide-bandgap semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN) with a gate length of only 70 nm.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Sep 10, 2025Halbleiter-Technologie erreicht Rekord-Effizienz

GESTRA was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Frequency Physics and Radar Technology (FHR) in Wachtberg.

CapabilityValue 2.2Jul 22, 2025Datenaustausch zwischen DLR und Weltraumkommando

Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics UK received £247,000 to develop low-cost, room-temperature photon counting detectors for imaging, sensing, and optical communications.

CapabilityFinancialValue 4.5Nov 23, 2023UK Space Agency Announces Funding for 23 Ground-Breaking Space Technology Projects

Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics UK received £240,000 to develop a low SWaP LiDAR instrument mountable on unmanned aerial vehicles for Earth observation.

FinancialCapabilityValue 4.3Nov 23, 2023UK Space Agency Announces Funding for 23 Ground-Breaking Space Technology Projects

HENSOLDT has agreed to cooperate with the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Technology FHR to transform the GESTRA technology demonstrator into a series-production ready, operationally deployable system called Custodian.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.2Feb 6, 2023HENSOLDT and Fraunhofer Collaborate on Space Surveillance Radar

HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH and Fraunhofer FHR signed a license agreement for the GESTRA/Custodian technology on 2023-01-12.

RelationshipsLegalValue 4.0Feb 6, 2023HENSOLDT and Fraunhofer Collaborate on Space Surveillance Radar

HENSOLDT, Fraunhofer FHR, and the German Space Agency have established a coordination committee to support commercialization of the Custodian technology and to serve as a platform for joint activities to build an international radar network.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 4.0Feb 6, 2023HENSOLDT and Fraunhofer Collaborate on Space Surveillance Radar

HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH and Fraunhofer FHR signed a license agreement on 2023-01-12.

LegalRelationshipsValue 4.2Feb 5, 2023HENSOLDT and Fraunhofer to cooperate on space surveillance radar to track debris
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