Europe’s largest trade fair dedicated to the space industry, returns to MESSE BREMEN, Germany on 19 – 21 November. The return of Space Tech Expo Europe strengthens its support of the multi-billion Euro European space sector in Bremen, the City of Space.

2024 marks the seventh edition of the expo which serves the European space sector and helps to connect and support an industry worth an estimated EURO 53-62 billion, employing more than 231,000 professionals, by facilitating business exchanges and the sharing of knowledge critical to the future development of Europe’s space capabilities.

Over 150 speakers and over 700 exhibiting companies will be part of Space Tech Expo Europe, including the European Space Agency and national space agencies of France, Italy, UK and the Netherlands, as well as SMEs from across Europe and RoW. The event will benefit from strong participation from businesses central to the state of Bremen’s standing as the European ‘City of Space’ including Airbus Group, OHB and ArianeGroup.

Space Tech Expo Europe Event Director, Gordon McHattie said “the aerospace sector plays a growing role in the economic success of the state of Bremen as well as throughout Germany and the rest of Europe. Space Tech Expo Europe is the annual event that helps to support this success. We do this by bringing together local, national and international stakeholders within the wider European space community, including space agencies, Lead System Integrators and SMEs dedicated to spacecraft, satellite and rocket manufacturing, to share the technological innovations and discuss the partnerships that will prove critical to the development of Europe’s position in the worldwide space and aerospace industry”.

The aerospace industry in the state of Bremen supports a workforce of about 12,000 employees, generating more than 4 billion euros per year, and features the highest employment density in the aerospace sector in all of Germany.