Fraunhofer AVIATION & SPACE

We wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and a flying start to 2025! ✨

Workshop „First Contact“ bei IFEX: Zukunftsvisionen für UAP, SETI und Krisenresilienz 🌌 Das Interdisziplinäre Forschungszentrum für Extraterrestrik (IFEX) an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg veranstaltete zusammen mit Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel und Leon Dehnhardt aus der Geschäftsstelle SPACE von Fraunhofer AVIATION & SPACE und Marcus John vom Fraunhofer INT einen Workshop zum Thema „First Contact“. Gemeinsam wurden innovative Ideen, Konzepte und Perspektiven für künftige Kooperationen erarbeitet. Der Fokus lag hierbei auf den Themen Erforschung von Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena #UAP, Suche nach extraterrestrischen Intelligenzen #SETI und #Resilienzforschung. Dieses Treffen unterstreicht die Bedeutung interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit bei der Erforschung dieser spannenden Themen und zeigt, wie viel Potential in den Forschungsfeldern liegt. Wir freuen uns auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit!

This week, Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel, Anne Drepper and Thomas Loosen are participating in the United Nations World Space Forum 2024 in Bonn, organised by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in collaboration with Germany, Peru and the United Arab Emirates. The theme, "Sustainable Space for Sustainability on Earth", brings together the international space community with stakeholders from politcs, industry, research, and society. It encourages discussions about key topics such as #SpaceDebris mitigation, sustainable space activities as well as lunar explorations. Our highlight is the opportunity to exchange ideas with many SPACE enthusiasts that you wouldn't otherwise meet so often. We are looking forward to the remaining sessions as well as further insightful conversations. Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. Deutsche Raumfahrtagentur im DLR Agencia Espacial del Perú - CONIDA UAE Space Agency #WSF2024 #UN #UNOOSA

Yesterday, our Central Office AVIATION had the chance to participate in the annual member’s meeting of the BDLI - Bundesverband der Deutschen Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie e.V.! Members of the Executive Board of BDLI hosted the following interesting board talks: “Defense & Security” - Dr. Michael Schoellhorn, BDLI President & Martin Kroell, BDLI SME Representative, in conversation with Lieutenant General Günter Katz, Commanding General Air Force Troop Command “#Space” - Marco Fuchs, BDLI Vice President Space and Dr. Michael Schöllhorn in conversation with Dr. Josef Aschbacher, Director General ESA European Space Agency “#Aviation” - Dr. Sabine Klauke, BDLI Vice President Aviation and Dr. Jörg Schuler, BDLI Vice President Equipment and Materials in conversation with Dr. Anna Christmann, Member of the German Parliament, Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace The German Federal Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius also held a speech on current challenges in the field of defence and security. Additionally, we were delighted to introduce Fraunhofer AVIATION & SPACE to the new Managing Director of BDLI, Marie-Christine von Hahn! We are happy to be a member of this association and the collaboration opportunities that come with it - it was a pleasure to take part in this amazing event!

This year's Aviation Forum was amazing! ✈️ Not only did we have the chance to make a lot of promising contacts from the #aviation industry - some of our personal highlights were the tech talks by Urs Roemer about “New level of surface protection - optimization of #aerospace production and MRO” and Joanna Steiner about “Integrating the circular economy into aviation: digital platforms and data rooms are driving change in the industry”. Thanks to everyone who came to visit us! Simon Kothe Andreas Battenberg Thomas Zimmermann Anja Sander Fraunhofer IFAM Fraunhofer IPK

Mission successful - Thank you Space Tech Expo Europe 2024 for having us! 🚀🌠 Once again, the Space Tech Expo Europe offered us a great opportunity for numerous conversations, to showcase our research and talk to important partners. We especially want to thank our guests for insightful exchanges and conversations with our scientists: ➡️ Walther Pelzer and Arianit Preci, Deutsche Raumfahrtagentur im DLR ➡️ Dr. Klaus Michel, Airbus Defence and Space ➡️ Thomas Reiter, European Space Agency - ESA ➡️ Matthias Johannes Wachter, BDI - Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. ➡️ Dr. Kristina Wagner, OHB SE ➡️ Christian Blohm and Markus Daugs, CGI Also, we're greatful for the opportunity to present four talks by our colleagues Frank Schäfer, Rainer Wansch, Stephanie Hesse-Ertelt, Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel and Stephan Busch as well as to host a panel moderated by Michael Lauster 🛰️ Last but not least, we want to thank all our colleagues from Fraunhofer CAP, Fraunhofer EMFT, Fraunhofer EMI, Fraunhofer FHR, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Polymerforschung IAP, Fraunhofer IIS, Fraunhofer ILT, Fraunhofer-Institut für Mikroelektronische Schaltungen und Systeme IMS, Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS, Fraunhofer INT, Fraunhofer IOF, Fraunhofer IPA and Fraunhofer IWS - it's always great to have you on board. We, Thomas Loosen, Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel, Anne Drepper, Carina Laßek, Leon Dehnhardt, David Butgereit, Maysem Sahbani and Yasmin Amidou, are already looking forward to next year's edition! ✨

Our Deputy Head of Central Office AVIATION Anja Sander also had the chance to attend the visit of the Scottish delegation, representing the activities of Fraunhofer AVIATION & SPACE in the #aerospace sector. It was a pleasure!

Visit us at the Aviation Forum next week on November 26-27 in Munich! At our booth C17, we will be presenting some of our exciting #aerospace topics! Additionally, we will be represented in some of the tech talks of the conference on the innovation stage, including the topics “New level of surface protection - optimization of aerospace production and MRO” and “Integrating the circular economy into aviation: digital platforms and data rooms are driving change in the industry”. We are looking forward to meeting you! Fraunhofer IFAM Fraunhofer IPK Andreas Battenberg Simon Kothe Martin Lehmann Anja Sander

Yesterday, we kicked off our week in Bremen with the third EEN-Fraunhofer Space Community Get-together at the #ECOMAT on the eve of the #SpaceTechExpo 🚀 We had a wonderful time with all the inspiring pitches from JELLYSPACE, QuantumPrime, KeplerKoord S.L., ANYFIELDS, Coher Sense, Lamb Space Tec, Phigi, Klepsydra Technologies, ORiS - Orbital Recharge in Space and Inpraise Systems, the keynote talks by Jan-Christian Meyer, Berlin Space Technologies GmbH, and Damian Breu, Fraunhofer Venture, as well as our contributors on the multi-faceted market square and the fruitful discussions. Thank you to all fellow space enthusiasts who joined us and contributed to the successful event full of engaging conversations and valuable connections! We’re already looking forward – as is good tradition – to next year’s event. EEN NRW / NRW.Europa Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) Niedersachsen Enterprise Europe Network Berlin-Brandenburg Enterprise Europe Network Bremen Berlin Brandenburg Aerospace Allianz BBAA e.V. Berlin Partner Unit for Mobility and Logistics  Johannes Böhmer Wolfgang Treinen Marielies Becker Ellen Horstmann Marcus Collier-Wright Thomas Loosen Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel Anne Drepper Leon Dehnhardt Carina Laßek David Butgereit Karina Görner

Discover our current research projects and topics at the Exhibitor Technology Forum during this year’s Space Tech Expo Europe starting next week. Four of our experts will showcase their diverse research on Wednesday, November 20, in Hall 7: ⏰ 14:00-14:30  👉 Frank Schäfer from Fraunhofer EMI and spokesperson SPACE from Fraunhofer AVIATION & SPACE presents the ERNST nanosatellite ⏰ 14:30-15:00  👉 Stephanie Hesse-Ertelt from Fraunhofer IOF speaks about optical instrumentation for Earth observation and satellite communication     ⏰ 15:00-15:30  👉 Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel from Fraunhofer AVIATION & SPACE and Stephan Busch from Fraunhofer EMI present the project NeT-Pioneer – Digitalisation of testing procedures for New Space We cordially invite you to join our presentations as well as to further exchanges at our booth in Hall 5, M22 and N11. #CubeSat #ERNST #EarthObservation #SatCom #digitalisation #NewSpace #STE2024 #Bremen