Germany’s MBS signs two-launch contract with South Korea’s Innospace

Germany’s Media Broadcast Satellite (MBS) has contracted South Korean launch startup Innospace for two orbital launches, securing launch services to place MBS satellites into orbit. The agreement is a commercial launch deal between a German satellite operator and an emerging Asian small‑launcher provider.

Discovered 2025-09-21T12:39:35.503390-07:00 | 2025-09-21T12:39:35.503390-07:00

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What Hype is tracking

Signals rising commercial demand for regional small‑launcher services and new international launch partnerships, following other Asia‑Pacific launch deals such as Space BD’s pact with Gilmour Space for Australian orbital launches (https://hype.aero/?story=940b7008-895d-4ff2-a460-4b662fc28d2e).
Indicates European satellite operators are sourcing non‑European launch options even as Europe works to deepen its own access to space, a dynamic reflected in Andøya Space and Rheinmetall Nordic’s LOI to accelerate European launch and deployment capability (https://hype.aero/?story=5b4e27e3-afb4-4905-a360-a0d88dcf70c0).
Comes as satellite production scales up in Europe, potentially increasing demand for commercial launch capacity; see MDA Space’s plans for a large‑volume satellite factory to serve growing D2D and Iris2 needs (https://hype.aero/?story=5dea79f2-c186-40f9-b7e2-ad371bfc5b9e).

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