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The Market
Bavaria offers one of the most concentrated aerospace, defense and satellite navigation markets in the world. There is a focus on the construction of military aircraft, propulsion systems, helicopters and sub-systems as well as devices required for these systems. Further key excellence areas are structures, drives and solar generators for spacecraft and satellites.
Some 23,000 engineers, technicians and commercial experts in the field of aerospace - making up over a third of all persons employed in this sector in Germany - are based in Bavaria and generate annual sales of approximately 4.8 billion euro. When including those employed in the air traffic sector (airports of Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg and Hof) the number of people employed is actually well over 50,000.
Aerospace
Internationally renowned companies of the aerospace industry like EADS, Eurocopter, MTU Aero Engines, and also SMEs such as IABG and Liebherr Aerospace or Diehl are based in Bavaria.
Bavaria is the leading location for military aircraft. The final assembly of the Eurofighter is carried out in Manching near Ingolstadt; major components such as fuselage middle structure are manufactured in Augsburg. The military helicopters NH 90 and Tiger and the civil EC 135 are also products made in Bavaria. Maintenance of the MIG 29 is carried out in Manching as part of a German-Russian corporate cooperation.
Bavaria is a major Airbus site. Key parts for the Airbus family and other aircraft originate from Bavaria. Bavarian companies manufacture, for example, undercarriage, turbines, supply and disposal systems as well as cabin systems.
Major aerospace companies such as EADS-Astrium, MAN-Technologie and Kayser-Threde are based in Bavaria. And key components for the European ARIANE launcher are made in Bavaria - like the solids boosters or the thrust chambers of all Ariane 5 liquid fuel rockets (Aestus and Vulcain). Bavarian enterprises boast a high level of excellence in the fields of ceramics, flight control systems and solar panels. EADS-Astrium has made a substantial investment in the development of an Ariane center and a solar center.
Satellite Navigation
Bavaria has truly reached new heights in the satellite navigation industry with the advent of GALILEO – the European global navigation satellite system. The system is expected to be operational by 2011. It will create a market for equipment and services worth some EUR 200 Billion per annum by 2013. According to the European Space agency, this gives Galileo an estimated worldwide GNSS market opportunity of 1,800 million users when the system becomes operational and 3600 million users after a decade in operation. Galileo will allow companies in Bavaria and throughout Europe to directly benefit from the evolution of the GNSS market.
Bavaria’s Initiatives in the Satellite Navigation Industry:
- Munich Satellite Navigation Summit being held annually (since 2001).
- Galileo Industries located in Ottobrunn (Galileo Industries is the European Contractor Consortium for the Implementation and Realization of Galileo)
- Facilities for research in satellite navigation:
- Institute for Geodesy and Navigation at the German Federal Armed Forces Academy in Neubiberg
- Institute for Communication and Navigation of the German Center for Aerospace Oberpfaffenhofen
- FhG Erlangen IIS (Integrated Information Systems)
- TU Munich (establishment of an institute for communication and navigation)
- University of Erlangen (creation of a professorship for positioning and navigation)
- Foundation of the Application Center for Satellite Navigation Incubator for start-up companies in navigation, currently home to 28 start-ups
- Establishment of an application center for satellite navigation in Oberpfaffenhofen
- Organization of the idea competition, Galileo Masters, for applications of satellite navigation conducted jointly with regions in France and Sweden
- Development of GATE, a Galileo test range south of Munich (Project facilitated through the German Aerospace Association and the German Federal Armed Forces)
- Establishment of a test laboratory at EADS-Atrium, Ottobrunn for verification of Galileo signals
- Cooperation with German states of Niedersachsen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the utilization of Satellite Navigation
- Establishment of a Master’s Degree program in Satellite Navigation in Munich
- Implementation of Project BLIS (Bundesgartenschau Global Positioning System)
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