Jörn "Joe" Menninger
speaker
1,749 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Jörn "Joe" Menninger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 3.
Appearances
Now June 2026 scrubbed twice.
Each time the funding comes through, regardless.
The market is pricing sovereign launch capabilities as strategically essential, independent of near-term mission outcomes.
that is the defence capital supercycle in its most concentrated form.
The capital thesis is that Europe must have sovereign launch capability.
The capital is available.
The physics is not cooperating.
My prediction
ESA reaches orbit before December thirty first this year.
If it does not, the conversations will shift from patience to alternatives.
Our news number five Focused Energy.
Sovereign capital beyond defense.
One more signal before we start our lightning round, and it's actually a big one.
On May 27th, Darmstadt-based Focused Energy raised 240 million US dollars in a Series A.
Yes, that's a large Series A.
That's actually the largest fully secured Series A in the global fusion industry.
Focused energy is not
Europe's most valuable fusion company and a newly coined German unicorn.
The company was only founded in 2021 as a spin-out of TU Darmstadt Technical University and the Laser and Plasma Physics Group, led by Professor Markus Roth.
Focus Energy pursues laser fusion.
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