SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG said Tuesday it had signed a contract with Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for a solar-cell production line valued at more than €60 million, tying the order to SpaceX’s satellite manufacturing plans.
The agreement covers a turnkey line for making heterojunction solar cells rather than a shipment of finished cells. Singulus linked the work to SpaceX’s satellite manufacturing in Bastrop, Texas, and said its strategic partnership includes plans for further lines.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X that the company had ordered equipment for 100 gigawatts per year of heterojunction solar manufacturing. Singulus’s announcement uses a different measure: it says the program would support more than 100 gigawatts of production equipment, without stating whether that figure is annual or cumulative. Singulus confirmed the first line and plans for additional lines, but did not describe the confirmed order as a 100-gigawatt-per-year contract.
SpaceX describes Starmind as a planned satellite system with solar power, onboard computing and laser links to the Starlink constellation. The company says its planned site could support a program involving thousands of AI satellites, with production and deployment possible by late 2027.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Space Bureau accepted for filing a SpaceX application for a system of up to 1 million satellites on Feb. 4 and sought public comment. The notice records a filing step, not approval to operate the system.
Singulus dates its strategic partnership with SpaceX to March 2026. In October, it disclosed a subordinated secured loan of about €22.75 million and identified SpaceX as the lender in its announcement Tuesday. Singulus expects to deliver the first production line during the first six months of 2027.
