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Space Tech Expo Europe 2026: who is exhibiting, 1,078 companies in Bremen

Space Tech Expo Europe 2026 runs from 17 to 19 November at Messe Bremen. The published list has 1,078 companies, the longest of any show this quarter, and 607 of them exhibit at no other show on our calendar. Who is there, the sponsors, and where else they go.

Radu BalasEdited by Adrian ManPublished 4 min read
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Space Tech Expo Europe 2026 runs from 17 to 19 November at Messe Bremen, and the organiser's published list already has 1,078 exhibiting and sponsoring companies, the longest list of any show in the last quarter of 2026 on our calendar. It is also the most self-contained: 607 of those companies are on no other show list we track, which makes Bremen the one place to meet most of the European space supply chain in one hall. The other 471 travel widely: 168 are also on the list for the Small Satellite Conference in Utah in August 2027, 131 for the Paris Air Show in June 2027 and 124 for SmallSat Europe in Amsterdam.

Space Tech Expo Europe is an annual trade show and conference for the space industry supply chain, held in Bremen since 2015 and organised by Smarter Shows. It covers civil, commercial and defence space, with an exhibition floor, B2B meetings and conference streams. The organiser reports about 950 exhibitors and 10,000 visitors for the 2025 edition. Full details are on our Space Tech Expo Europe 2026 event page.

What we found

  • 1,078 companies: 1,072 exhibitors and 20 sponsors, 14 of which also exhibit
  • Four Platinum sponsors: American Elements, D-Orbit, Exolaunch and Space Inventor, plus 13 Gold and 3 Silver sponsors
  • Companies from 40 countries; among those with a known home country Germany leads with 89, then France (54) and the United States (53)
  • 607 companies are on no other show list on our calendar
  • 168 companies also go to the Small Satellite Conference 2027, 131 to the Paris Air Show 2027, 124 to SmallSat Europe 2027 and 97 to SATELLITE 2027 in Washington
  • 34 of the exhibitors are coming straight from Euronaval, which closes in Paris eleven days earlier, and 28 go on to Aeromart Toulouse in December
  • The list does not yet carry stand numbers, so plan by name rather than by hall position

The biggest names and sponsors

The Platinum sponsors are American Elements, D-Orbit, Exolaunch and Space Inventor. The Gold sponsors are AIKO Space, Ansys, AZO Anwendungszentrum Oberpfaffenhofen, CASSINI, Elbit Systems, Green Space Center, HBK Hottinger Brüel & Kjaer, Iris Technology, the Italian Trade Agency, SEOPS, Tenics, TUSK IC and Viscom. Getelec, HHV Advanced Technologies and Xjenza Malta sponsor at Silver level.

Agencies and primes on the exhibitor list include the European Space Agency through several of its business incubation centres and its SME and start-ups programme, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), CNES, OHB (OHB SE, OHB Sweden and OHB Czechspace), Airbus Defence and Space, Leonardo, Telespazio Germany, SES, Beyond Gravity, Honeywell Aerospace, Viasat, Safran Electronics & Defense, Teledyne, Redwire, Siemens, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace with KSAT, Nammo and Rheinmetall.

The launch side of the industry is well represented: Isar Aerospace, RFA (Rocket Factory Augsburg), HyImpulse, PLD Space, Rocket Lab and Dawn Aerospace are all listed, as are the Earth observation companies ICEYE, Aerospacelab and Satlantis. The host city exhibits as Bremen City of Space, with Hochschule Bremen alongside.

By sector

The organiser's list does not sort exhibitors by product, so we grouped the companies using the categories on their pages in our directory. On that basis 360 of the exhibitors are manufacturers and 325 are filed under space, with software (72), consulting (55), avionics (53), telecommunications (52), parts suppliers (43), security (21), universities and research (16) and government agencies (12) behind them. In practice the floor is dominated by component, subsystem and test equipment suppliers to satellite and launcher builders, with a smaller group of operators, ground segment and data companies.

By country

The list covers 40 countries. By country, Germany leads with 89, then France (54), the United States (53), Italy (29), the United Kingdom (26), Sweden (16), Japan (15), Switzerland (13), Spain (13), the Netherlands (11), Belgium (10), Denmark (10), Czechia (9), Greece (7), Luxembourg (7) and Taiwan (7). South Korea, Israel and Poland each have six. Japan and Taiwan are the furthest-travelled groups of any size, and the Italian Trade Agency's Gold sponsorship points to a sizeable Italian presence on the floor.

Companies to look for

Practical information

Organisers update their lists up to the show, so companies may be added or drop out, and stand numbers will follow. If your company is on this list, check your page on Flying Engineer and claim it so visitors find the right contact before they arrive in Bremen.

Source: the exhibitor and sponsor lists on the Flying Engineer aviation events calendar and the company data we hold.

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