Weltraumtechnik: Isar Aerospace: Mitgründer verlässt Raketen-Startup

Ottobrunn - Less than two weeks after the successful launch of its rocket, rocket startup Isar Aerospace has lost its chief technical officer. Co-founder Josef Fleischmann has resigned from his position as CTO to develop other space technologies in his newly established company, Bavaria Instruments. He remains involved in Isar Aerospace, according to a spokesperson.

The successor to the CTO position will be Can Araz. "At Isar Aerospace, we have demonstrated that first-class engineering can be translated into genuine production capacities in Europe. Now, it's about translating further critical technologies into products, business models, and outcomes," Fleischmann says. "With Bavaria Instruments, I continue this mission."

In praising his successor, Fleischmann notes that Araz "has contributed to building our technology from the beginning. He combines expert technical knowledge with a unique understanding of our systems and is perfectly suited to lead our technology and development organization into the next phase." Bavaria Instruments plans to initially focus on computing technologies for orbit.

This will enable direct processing of data in space, thereby improving real-time analysis of Earth observation data or autonomous maneuvering and cooperation among spacecraft.