The key facts

  • The Stellar Hub plant opened on October 28 in Settimo Torinese near Turin; the clean room is 2,000 square meters, one of the largest in Europe
  • The facility is designed for spacecraft up to 600 kg, with up to 12 separate integration zones for parallel programs
  • Space Industries was founded in 2025, has about 40 employees and three contracts; by 2030 its goals are over 200 employees and a turnover of 30 million euros

New plant near Turin

On October 28, the Italian company Space Industries opened the Stellar Hub plant in Settimo Torinese, near Turin — a facility for the assembly, integration and testing of satellites and spacecraft weighing up to 600 kg. According to euronews, at the heart of the plant is a 2,000-square-meter clean room, one of the largest in Europe.

All stages under one roof

The main feature of Stellar Hub is the concentration of all key production stages in one place. The facility has testing infrastructure, including a thermal vacuum chamber and a vibration testing area; environmental tests, vibration tests and signal transmission checks are all carried out on a single site. The modular spaces include up to 12 separate integration zones, allowing several programs to run in parallel. The infrastructure is designed for commercial, institutional and scientific programs — from single satellites to small and medium series and larger constellations. Concentrating the stages on one site reduces movement between plants and simplifies work coordination.

The company and its plans

Stellar Hub was built by Space Industries S.p.A., founded in Turin in 2025 by the Comat group and the Italian-American entrepreneur Giuseppe Santangelo, who has extensive international experience in the aerospace industry. The company already has three contracts and about 40 employees; by 2030 it expects to grow its workforce to more than 200 people and its annual turnover to 30 million euros. The company's goal is to 'industrialize' satellite production, bringing the efficiency and organizational principles typical of serial industrial manufacturing into the space sector. In the aerospace industry, this set of operations — assembly, integration and testing — is known by the abbreviation AIT.