Full-Time
Wire Harness Technician
EWIS
The Exploration Company
501-1,000 employees
Orbital vehicle developer with open interfaces
Compensation Overview
€52k - €70k/yr
Munich, Germany
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- Technical vocational training (Ausbildung) in an electrical, electronic, or mechanical field, such as Elektroniker or Mechatroniker, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Strong hands-on experience manufacturing wiring harnesses or cable assemblies in a high-reliability context such as aerospace, space, aviation, motorsport, defense, or medical.
- Ability to interpret harness drawings, wiring diagrams, bills of materials, and connector tables while working from controlled documentation and detailed work instructions.
- Solid understanding of harness workmanship principles, including crimp quality, strain relief, routing and bend radius, shielding and grounding practices, backshell assembly, and torqueing.
- Practical troubleshooting skills for identifying pinning errors, shorts, opens, intermittent faults, damaged contacts, and shielding issues.
- Experience using harness assembly tools, including crimp tools, wire strippers, insertion and extraction tools, torque tools, and soldering equipment when applicable.
- Ability to follow precise processes and work instructions while maintaining consistency and traceability during production.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced production or test environment where priorities can shift based on integration and delivery needs.
- Build development, qualification, and test electrical harnesses, including cutting and stripping, crimping, splicing, soldering where applicable, lacing and tying, over-braid and shield terminations, labeling, and final assembly.
- Support batch-by-batch production for test campaigns and verification activities, including shock and vibration, electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility, and thermal vacuum testing, by coordinating parts, tooling, and work-instruction readiness.
- Work with harness design and integration stakeholders to ensure manufacturability, drawing clarity, and alignment between wiring diagrams and physical assembly.
- Maintain as-built records, deviation records, rework logs, and configuration and serial tracking for harnesses and critical components.
- Communicate issues clearly with engineering and quality teams.
- High attention to detail and manual dexterity, with a focus on quality and workmanship standards and preferably IPC/WHMA awareness.
- Familiarity with aerospace and space workmanship standards and inspection approaches, including IPC-style workmanship, connector acceptance criteria, and traceability practices.
- Experience with harness electrical test equipment and automated test report generation.
- Understanding of electromagnetic-interference and electromagnetic-compatibility-sensitive build practices, including shield termination strategies, pigtail control, and bonding and grounding considerations.
- Prior experience supporting test harness builds for environmental testing, including vibration and thermal-vacuum testing.
The Exploration.Space builds Nyx, a modular, reusable orbital vehicle that can be refueled in orbit, and operates Nyx for various missions while also selling its open-interface components on the SpaceStore for others to use. Nyx works by launching to orbit, being refueled in space, and reconfiguring for different missions through its modular design. The company differentiates itself by pairing spacecraft operations with an open marketplace of modular components, inviting third parties to build on its technology. Its goal is to make space exploration affordable, sustainable, and accessible to a global audience.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$664.8M
Headquarters
Planegg, Germany
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- The September 8, 2026 Series C raised $450 million, extending runway to roughly $680 million.
- TEC says it has over $2 billion in contracts and commitments, including ESA and NASA.
- Siemens, Bessemer, Atomico, and EQT validate TEC’s engineering stack and global commercial pull.
What critics are saying
- Nyx has never reached orbit; missing 2028 ISS demo would crush credibility.
- ESA and space-station contracts dominate revenue; one failure jeopardizes the entire commercial thesis.
- Arianespace, SpaceX, and ArianeGroup can outpace TEC on reliability, price, and launch access.
What makes The Exploration Company unique
- TEC won ESA’s €760 million Nyx cargo contract on September 10, 2026.
- Nyx combines reusable capsule recovery with future refueling, crew, and lunar capabilities.
- Storm targets full-flow staged combustion, rare in Europe and strategically distinct from microlaunchers.
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↓ -1%The Exploration Company has won a €760 million contract from the European Space Agency to build and fly Europe's first commercial cargo capsule to the International Space Station. The deal includes €310 million for an initial demonstration mission and up to €450 million for two optional service missions. The contract follows TEC's recent €387 million Series C funding round. The funds will support development of the Nyx reusable capsule and Storm rocket engine. Founded in 2021 by Hélène Huby, TEC builds reusable space capsules capable of carrying up to 3,000 kilograms of cargo. The company has also signed pre-booking agreements with commercial space station operators, bringing total contracted missions to 10 worth roughly $2 billion. TEC will launch its first Nyx capsule on an Ariane 6 rocket from French Guiana.
The Exploration Company raises $450 million in Series C funding. September 8, 2026 European space logistics startup The Exploration Company has raised $450 million (€387 million) in a Series C funding round to support the development of its Nyx capsule and Storm rocket engine. Announced on 8 September, the round was co-led by US venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, London-based venture capital firm Atomico, and the Scaleup Europe Fund, a European growth investment fund managed by Swedish private equity group EQT. Existing investors also contributed to the round. The new investment brings The Exploration Company's total funding secured since its founding in 2021 to approximately $680 million. The company's last funding round was a €150 million Series B in late 2024. "This financing will allow us to execute with urgency: to bring Nyx to the International Space Station and safely back to Earth, while accelerating Storm, the high-thrust propulsion capability Europe needs for its future reusable heavy launcher," said The Exploration Company CEO Hélène Huby. According to its 8 September press release, The Exploration Company's near-term focus for the new funding will be the development of its Nyx reusable space capsule, designed to ferry cargo to and from low Earth orbit (LEO). Future iterations of the vehicle will add capabilities to carry crew to and from LEO and cargo to the surface of the Moon. In a June announcement, The Exploration Company said Nyx's first demonstration flight was expected to launch in 2028. The Series C funding will also be used to accelerate the development of Storm, a reusable high-thrust rocket engine powered by liquid oxygen and biomethane. According to The Exploration Company, Storm is intended to provide the propulsion foundation for a future reusable European super-heavy launcher capable of carrying up to 40 tonnes to low Earth orbit in a reusable configuration. In June, the company briefly added mention of a reusable heavy-lift rocket called Yrene to its website. Imagery published at the time appeared to show the vehicle powered by nine Storm engines. However, a company spokesperson subsequently told European Spaceflight that Yrene was a "long-term concept" and that its short- and medium-term focus remained on its capsule and propulsion programmes. References to Yrene were later removed from the company's website. According to the 8 September press release, the funding will enable the company to conduct subscale thrust chamber and pre-burner tests in the coming months, followed by an oxygen-rich power-pack test and a workhorse engine test over the next several years. The company also added that it has secured more than $2 billion in contracts and commitments from public and private customers. These include agreements with the European Space Agency and commercial space station operators. The combination of contracts and commitments makes it difficult to determine how much of that $2 billion represents firm contracted revenue rather than non-binding or conditional future business.
PARIS, 8 September 2026: The Exploration Company (TEC), a European space company scaling globally, today announced a $450 million Series C financing, the largest-ever Series C announced by a European space company. It also marks the largest funding round ever secured by an EU-headquartered company led by a female founder and CEO. The round is co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Atomico, and the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, with participation from TEC’s existing European backers including Balderton, Plural, Cherry and Red River West.
France's capsule startup The Exploration Company raises $450 million in new investment capital. France's capsule startup The Exploration Company has now raised an additional $450 million in new investment capital, bringing its total cash on hand to $680 million. The Exploration Company (TEC), a European space company scaling globally, today announced a $450 million Series C financing, the largest-ever Series C announced by a European space company. It also marks the largest funding round ever secured by an EU-headquartered company led by a female founder and CEO. The round is co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Atomico, and the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, with participation from TEC's existing European backers including Balderton, Plural, Cherry and Red River West. The financing expands TEC's investor base across both sides of the Atlantic while maintaining a strong European foundation, bringing long-term capital behind a shared objective: to scale reusable space transportation platforms capable of serving customers and institutions across borders. Bessemer's Alex Ferrara will join the TEC board of directors. The financing brings TEC's total funding secured to date to approximately $680 million. The company will use this money to accelerate construction of both its Nyx cargo capsule as well as a new rocket engine, dubbed Storm. The press release notes that they are now beginning construction on the flight model of Nyx, with a 2028 target date for its first orbital launch. Though its first flight is hoping to dock with ISS, the company is very clearly marketing that capsule for use by the five American space stations presently in development. In fact, company officials say they already signed $800 million in cargo contracts, 90% of which are with the commercial space station companies Axiom Space, Vast, and Starlab, with the rest government contracts. As part of that effort, TEC has been expanding its U.S. operations, opening an American subsidiary in July. On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman. The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner. The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible. "Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."-San Antonio Express-News
The Exploration Company raises $450M Series C to scale reusable space transport. The new funding will support the development of TEC's Nyx reusable capsule for a planned mission to the International Space Station and advance its Storm high-thrust rocket engine. European space company The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million in Series C funding to advance its reusable space transportation systems and expand its operations. The round was co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Atomico and the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, with participation from existing investors including Balderton, Plural, Cherry and Red River West. Bessemer's Alex Ferrara will join TEC's board of directors. The round brings the company's total funding to approximately $680 million. Founded by Hélène Huby, TEC is developing reusable spacecraft and propulsion systems designed to transport cargo between Earth and orbit. The company is targeting growing demand for space-station logistics and in-orbit services as space infrastructure becomes increasingly important for communications, scientific research, security and other critical services. TEC's near-term focus is Nyx, its reusable space capsule designed to transport cargo to current and future space stations and return it safely to Earth, with the potential to carry crew at a later stage. The company plans for Nyx to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) before returning to Earth, demonstrating an end-to-end reusable orbital transportation capability. Hélène Huby, founder and CEO of The Exploration Company, said that while space infrastructure supports increasingly important services on Earth, the ability to reach orbit, supply missions and return from space remains limited. This financing will allow us to execute with urgency: to bring Nyx to the International Space Station and safely back to Earth, while accelerating Storm, the high-thrust propulsion capability Europe needs for its future reusable heavy launcher. We are scaling from Europe with talent, customers and partners from around the world because the next generation of space transportation must be built to serve more nations, industries and people - and because our mission is to contribute to build a more collaborative and peaceful future in space, Huby said. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the financing demonstrates Europe's ability to combine technological development and ambition with growth capital. She also highlighted TEC's presence across several EU member states, the involvement of the Scaleup Europe Fund and the significance of female leadership in the technology sector. According to TEC, the Series C is the largest funding round ever secured by an EU-headquartered company led by a female founder and CEO. Part of the funding will go towards the development and testing of Storm, TEC's high-thrust rocket engine, which uses oxygen and methane as propellants. The engine is being developed for a future reusable European heavy-lift launcher designed to carry up to 40 tonnes into low Earth orbit. Planned development work includes tests of the engine's pre-burners and power system, followed by testing of a full engine prototype. Alongside its technology development, TEC says it has secured more than $2 billion in contracts and commitments from public- and private-sector customers globally. These include work with the European Space Agency (ESA) and cargo logistics agreements with commercial space-station operators. The company has also signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA and is working with the agency on technical, safety and certification requirements for potential future missions to the ISS and commercial space stations. Subject to regulatory approvals, the Series C will also support hiring and the expansion of TEC's engineering, manufacturing, mission operations, propulsion and programme delivery capabilities. Follow the developments in the technology world. What would you like us to deliver to you?