Schaeffler AG joins forces with Spire to build sovereign European satellites
AMSTERDAM – Spire Global revealed another element of its campaign to rapidly scale satellite production in German: strategic cooperation with Schaeffer AG, a major German manufacturer of automotive systems and other motion technologies.
"Together with Schaeffler, we share a long-term vision for sovereign European space capability – built, deployed, and operated within Europe at industrial scale," Spire CEO Theresa Condor said in a statement.
Earlier this month, Spire unveiled a facility in Munich to develop and manufacture as many as 100 satellites annually. Through a memorandum announced May 27, Spire will draw on Schaeffler's expertise in large-scale manufacturing, precision engineering and production discipline.
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Spire and Schaeffler will "build a sovereign European space hardware and mission business before the end of this decade – industrialized in Germany, flight-proven in orbit, and deployable at scale for defense, weather, civil security, and critical-infrastructure missions," according to a Spire news release.
Initially, the companies will work together to secure and scale the supply chain for key satellite components and subsystems from motors to reaction wheels. At the same time, Spire and Schaeffler will "evaluate a path toward industrialized satellite bus platforms for sovereign constellation programs, with Schaeffler leading precision manufacturing scale-up and Spire contributing platform architecture, flight software, and operational know-how," the news release added.
Schaeffler is joining forces with Spire as part of its campaign to harness its expertise in managing automotive and industrial supply chains to extend its work in the fields of space and defense.
"As a motion technology company Schaeffler is ideally positioned to enter the new space sector," Schaeffler CEO Klaus Rosenfeld said in a statement. "We recognize a powerful industrial logic at the heart of this cooperation. Schaeffler's precision manufacturing, motor and bearing heritage, and power electronics capability are precisely what the growing European satellite industry requires in industrialized, flight-qualified hardware."
Since 2013, Spire has designed, built and launched more than 240 satellites.
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