A week in Munich created by merging the long-running Munich Satellite Navigation Summit with the Munich New Space Summit, run by a university, a national research centre and a regional aerospace network rather than by an exhibition company.
The Munich Space Summit is an annual week-long summit held in Munich, created in 2026 by merging two established Bavarian events: the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, a long-running technical gathering on global navigation satellite systems, and the Munich New Space Summit, the commercial space event. The 2027 edition runs from 15 to 19 March and is the second under the merged format. It is organised by the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, the DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation and Munich Aerospace. The 2026 edition drew around 850 visitors from 32 countries. Registration, exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities for 2027 were announced to open in autumn 2026.
The two predecessor events served populations that overlapped less than their subject matter suggested. The Satellite Navigation Summit was a technical conference: Galileo signal design, receiver engineering, timing, interference. The New Space Summit was a business event: startups, funding, commercial applications. Merging them was a bet that position, navigation and timing is now a commercial and dual-use subject rather than a purely institutional one, and that the engineers and the founders benefit from being in the same building.
Whether that bet paid off is visible in the format. The organisers describe the summit as bridging technical expertise with business and application-driven exchange, and the week is long enough, five days, to carry both without forcing everyone into the same sessions.
The scope runs from satellite navigation and Galileo through Earth observation services to commercial space technologies, autonomous systems and infrastructure resilience. Resilience is the theme that connects the two halves: navigation signals are jammed and spoofed at scale in and around Europe, and the response involves both signal engineering and the commercial provision of alternative timing and positioning. Dual use runs through the programme, which is unsurprising given that one of the three organisers is the university of the German armed forces.
It is its successor. The Satellite Navigation Summit merged with the Munich New Space Summit in 2026 to form the Munich Space Summit. The navigation content continues inside the merged programme.
Both, deliberately. The organisers set out to bridge technical depth and business exchange, and the five-day format gives each side room.
The 2026 edition drew visitors from 32 countries, so the audience is international, but the subject matter is weighted toward European programmes: Galileo, EU space policy and the European supplier base.
The University of the Bundeswehr Munich is the German armed forces' university and has a strong space and navigation research base. The DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation is part of the German aerospace centre. Munich Aerospace is the regional network connecting Bavarian universities, research institutes and industry. None of the three is a commercial event company, which shapes the programme: content selection is academic and institutional rather than sponsor led.
Two Munich institutions merged their summits and produced the one European event where navigation engineers and newspace founders share a corridor.
Registration, exhibitor places and sponsorship for the 2027 edition were announced to open in autumn 2026, and pricing had not been published at the verification date. The 2026 edition was held at the Alte Kongresshalle in Munich; the 2027 venue had not been confirmed publicly. Anyone planning to attend should watch the summit website from October 2026 onwards, and treat the March dates as the fixed point while the venue and rates settle.
15 to 19 March 2027 in Munich. Note that some third-party calendars listed 8 to 12 March; the organiser's own site gives 15 to 19 March, which is the date recorded here.
The 2027 venue had not been announced at the verification date. The 2026 edition took place at the Alte Kongresshalle, Am Bavariapark 14, Munich.
Not announced. Registration was due to open in autumn 2026.
Munich airport connects to the city centre in about 40 minutes on the S1 and S8 lines. March is off-season for the city, so accommodation is easier than during the autumn trade fair period.
| Official website | https://www.munich-space-summit.org/ |
| Munich Aerospace | https://www.munich-aerospace.de/ |
| University of the Bundeswehr Munich event page | https://www.unibw.de/home/veranstaltungen/zentrale-termine/munich-space-summit |