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Reflex Aerospace Scales European Satellite Production Backed by Planned NVIDIA Investment

October 19th, 2026

Reflex Aerospace is scaling its sovereign production capabilities in Europe, backed by a planned minority investment from NVIDIA. The investment will support production expansion in Bavaria and further development of the company’s satellite platform architecture with specific focus on on-board processing capabilities.

This planned investment follows Reflex Aerospace’s record €50 million Series A in November 2025 and comes as the company moves from its first missions to constellation-scale production.

Reflex Aerospace designs and manufactures payload-centric satellites. Built on its platform architecture, Reflex’s satellites can be adapted quickly to customer payloads across Earth observation, intelligence, space domain awareness, and communications missions. From order to delivery of a first-of-a-kind satellite, Reflex typically needs nine to twelve months – a fraction of the two to four years common in traditional satellite programs.

The company’s strategy responds directly to Europe’s security needs. Existing European space infrastructure often relies on a few costly single satellites. Reflex builds mission-tailored, mid-sized satellites for low Earth orbit constellations, with delivery timelines designed to help customers deploy and replenish critical capabilities more quickly in the face of disruption or targeted attacks. With manufacturing anchored in Germany and a strong focus on sovereign control over supply chain, manufacturing, and operations, Reflex aims to close critical gaps in Europe’s independent access to space-based intelligence and communications. 

“Europe needs satellites it can build, control and deploy on its own terms – and it needs them now,” said Walter Ballheimer, CEO of Reflex Aerospace. “Over the past year, we have shown that our approach works: from our first satellite in orbit to platforms for some of the most demanding constellations in Europe; including platform designs for very-high resolution stereo imaging and orbital data center constellations. We are pleased to welcome NVIDIA among our investors as we continue to scale production to meet growing demand.”

NVIDIA joins existing investors including Alpine Space Ventures, Human Element, Bayern Kapital and HTGF. Financial terms were not disclosed.