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  01.07.2026 Austria's Armed Forces are building their own gateway to space : Five satellites are due to reach orbit by the end of 2027. For just under ten million euros, the Austrian Armed Forces are trialling navigation, communications and reconnaissance from space — a shift in security policy that has been put off for years.

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  23.06.2026 R-Space presents its first sa­tel­lite ful­ly de­ve­lo­ped, built, and ope­ra­ted in Austria : AT-Astra, the first com­mer­cial sa­tel­lite fully developed and built in Austria, will carry experiments from three customers into orbit with Isar Aerospace’s third flight in au­tumn 2026.

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  19.06.2026 GATE Space Wins € 6.3 Million from the European Commission : Austrian space company GATE Space has won € 6.3 million in funding through the European Commission’s EIC Accelerator program. The financing consists of a combination of research and development grants and equity investment implemented by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and is considered one of Europe’s most competitive technology funding instruments.

Who is Who

People, companies, organisations, missions, success stories - All you need to know about Austria's space sector.

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  Tumbleweed - Access to space, as easy as mailing a package : The Vienna-based company develops pre-certified systems designed to make space accessible for new applications and users.

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  Satellives: The Next Generation of Space Infrastructure : Lilly Eichinger, founder and CEO of Satellives, found an unusal way into space entrepreneurship. Born in Budapest, she first studied philosophy and fine arts, then architecture, and eventually technical physics in Vienna. Trained as an architect with a lifelong fascination for space, she long dreamed of designing settlements on the Moon or Mars, until she realized that before humans could live and work there, space infrastructure must be put there first.

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  Ludwig Möller: Building Bridges in Europe’s Space Future : When Ludwig Möller talks about his path into space, he starts not with rockets or satellites, but with Europe. "It’s the E in ESA and in ESPI that has always mattered most to me, the European," he says. "Space came later."

Space-Wiki

Knowledge about space.

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  What exactly is a CubeSat? : More and more satellites are being launched, mostly CubeSats. But what do they look like and what makes them so special?

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  What is Spacetech? : Upstream, downstream, satellite data - the space sector is so much more than astronaut:ing in space. But what is it all exactly?

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  How the Austromir experiments still benefit us today : The scientific experiments carried out by Franz Viehböck during the first space flight by an Austrian in 1991 as part of the "Austromir" mission on the Russian Mir space station still have benefits today.

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  About austrian satellite PEGASUS : The Earth observation satellite PEGASUS celebrates its 4th birthday in June 2021.

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  In memory of the Sentinel-6 namesake: Who was Michael Freilich? : Many people cheered live when the Sentinel-6 mission started on November 21, 2020. But Austrian space fans often asked: Why is the satellite actually called Michael Freilich? Exactly the right time to introduce the person behind the name.

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  How Franz Viehböck became the Austromir Cosmonaut : The 12th of April, the date the first human Yuri Gagarin went into space is celebrated as International Day of Human Spaceflight.