Space industry in Hungary

Admatis

Miskolc, Hungary commercial

ADMATIS (the name stands for "Advanced Materials In Space") is a Hungarian space engineering company based in Miskolc, founded in 2000. It specializes in thermal and structural hardware for spacecraft, including multi-layer insulation, radiators, thermal-control systems, mechanical structures and ground-support equipment, backed by in-house material-science, structural-analysis, manufacturing and environmental-test capabilities. Its hardware has flown on multiple European Space Agency missions: the company supplied thermal and structural components for ESA's JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission, which launched in 2023, for the CHEOPS exoplanet telescope, and for the Sentinel-2 and Meteosat Third Generation Earth-observation satellites; as of 2026 it was testing a third flight model of Meteosat Third Generation hardware. ADMATIS also contributed equipment to the POSITIVE project, an ISS-bound payload, and works as a subcontractor to prime contractors including Airbus, Thales and OHB, alongside direct collaboration with ESA and NASA. The company is privately held, majority-owned (63.5%) by the Bárczy family with the remainder held by other Hungarian private individuals, and has received Hungarian national GINOP grant funding for thermal-services and aerogel-insulation development work. ADMATIS is Hungary's most established space-hardware manufacturer, supplying flight components into ESA's science and Earth-observation programs rather than building complete spacecraft of its own.

Puli Space Technologies is a Hungarian space technology company founded in June 2010 in Budapest by physicist Dr. Tibor Pacher (CEO) and Pál Gábor Vizi, originally to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize as 'Team Puli.' The team, named after the Hungarian herding-dog breed, initially proposed a spherical rolling lander before developing the four-wheeled 'Puli' rover, which used leg-like 'wheg' structures for mobility on the lunar surface; the Google Lunar X Prize ended in 2018 without any team completing a launch, and Team Puli was among the competitors that withdrew before the deadline. Rather than ceasing operations when the prize ended, Puli Space pivoted to supplying lunar science instruments and engineering services to other missions. Its main current project is the Puli Lunar Water Snooper (PLWS), a neutron spectrometer instrument designed to detect water ice beneath the lunar surface; a PLWS payload flew to the Moon's south pole region aboard Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission, which launched in February 2025. The company, based at Fogarasi út 5, Budapest, works with partners including NASA, the European Space Agency and Intuitive Machines, and continues to develop planetary rover and in-situ resource utilisation technology for the lunar market. Puli Space Technologies remains an active, privately held company; it is not defunct despite its original Google Lunar X Prize team having withdrawn from that competition.