Vienna calling: tenics opens location at Vienna Airport
tenics is growing beyond Bremen. With our acceptance into Phi-Lab Austria, we are opening our first international location, directly at Vienna Airport, one of the central hubs for aerospace companies in the DACH region. The opening attracted significant media attention: Austrian public broadcaster ORF was among those reporting on the new addition to Vienna’s growing space ecosystem. Austria has an active and well-connected space community, and we are excited to now be an active part of this dynamic network.
At the Vienna location, we are developing a new product: the unit.engine. It is aimed at unit integrators. These are the teams responsible for integrating components and subsystems into satellites. Subsystem integration today is often slow, error-prone, and costly due to a lack of standardized software tools, even though many steps could be standardized across missions. The units.engine addresses exactly this gap, giving integrators a common foundation to work faster, more cost-effectively, and more reliably.
Phi-Lab Austria is an ESA Business Incubation Centre program that supports innovative space startups in entering new markets. It provides infrastructure, network access, and hands-on expertise. Furthermore it helps connecting companies directly with ESA’s knowledge base and the broader European space industry. Backed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and located at the Vienna Airport tech campus, Phi-Lab Austria has become one of the most attractive entry points for space companies looking to establish themselves in the DACH region. For us, it is the ideal environment to develop a new product while simultaneously establishing a foothold in the Austrian market.
We will initially be represented at the location with three software engineers, with the clear goal of continuing to grow our on-site team as the units.engine matures.
The unit.engine is the next building block in our software infrastructure for European space and a natural complement to the eo.engine we are developing in Bremen. Together, they form an integrated software stack that covers both Earth observation missions and satellite integration workflows. Vienna is an ideal place to advance our vision of making European space faster, more reliable, and more sovereign through software.
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