ZfT is a research institute in Würzburg combining telecommunications, automation and informatics to build and test small satellites (CubeSats), robotic systems and automation technologies. It operates test-infrastructures including satellite-ground antennas, thermal-vacuum and vibration-test chambers, robot-halls and simulation environments — enabling both space-missions and industrial automation demos. Through projects like NetSat (a multi-CubeSat formation mission) and proposals for modular satellite production (e.g. Space Factory 4.0), ZfT plays a key role in “New Space” research and small-satellite innovation in Germany.