BERLIN — The German Bundeswehr is coming to grips with the fact that its national space industrial base is to small to handle the ramp-up required of Germany’s five-year 35-billion-euro ($40.4 billion) military space budget starting this year.
Going outside Germany for some of the capacity is one option. But the Bundeswehr is also urging its established German contractors to team with New Space companies that have demonstrated products that, while not in industrialization phase, can be accelerated with the help of the established space sector . . .
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