Pangea Propulsion opens Barcelona-area manufacturing plant for serial production
Pangea Propulsion
The Spanish propulsion maker opened a 1,000-square-metre plant near Barcelona, its first shift to serial production.
what happened
Pangea Propulsion inaugurated a 1,000-square-metre manufacturing facility in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona, investing an initial €1 million of a planned €7 million total through 2028. The facility will build the company's Nereus in-space thrusters and its Arcos aerospike engine and marks the company's shift from prototypes to serial production; Actualidad Aeroespacial reports the company's headcount grew about 30% over the past year, from 77 to nearly 100 employees.
why it matters
Pangea is one of a handful of European propulsion specialists supplying engines to launch-vehicle and in-space customers rather than building its own rocket. Serial-production capacity signals it can supply components at fleet scale, relevant to European launch-vehicle primes and in-space transportation providers sourcing propulsion domestically rather than from the US.
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quick facts
- Companies
- Pangea Propulsion
- Category
- product
- Impact
- noise
- SNR
- 4 / 5
- Event date
- 2026-07-14
- Published
- 2026-07-15 05:29 UTC