Germany is ESA's biggest funder at €5.4B, runs 55 DLR research institutes, and is racing to launch two private rockets — Spectrum and RFA ONE — by 2026.
Airbus, Thales Alenia, and OHB build the satellites powering Galileo, Copernicus, OneWeb, and Orion — inside Europe's $15B space industrial base that rivals the US.
