SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES said the first heterojunction solar cell line it is building for SpaceX “has an order volume of over € 60 million”, in its nine-month results release of 11 November. The order is larger than the company’s entire order backlog of €47.1 million at 30 September, more than 1.27 times, by our arithmetic.
The same release says revenue for the first nine months of 2026 rose by approximately 36% to €60.4 million and order intake doubled to €60.3 million. Singulus kept its 2026 forecast of approximately €83.0 million of revenue; the first SpaceX line alone is more than 72% of that, by our arithmetic.
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The key insight: Singulus said the first heterojunction solar cell line it is building for SpaceX has an order volume of over €60 million, more than 1.27 times its €47.1 million order backlog at 30 September, by our arithmetic. Nine-month revenue rose about 36% to €60.4 million and order intake doubled to €60.3 million, the release says.
Singulus signed the supply contract with SpaceX on 10 November, after the end of the reporting period, for “a turnkey production line for the manufacture of heterojunction solar cells”. The release says the contract is part of a strategic partnership under which Singulus is “planning to deliver multiple additional lines”, and that “The first line under the broader supply agreement has an order volume of over € 60 million”.
The first line will be delivered in the first half of 2027, and production “will scale to support more than 100 GW of production equipment as SpaceX accelerates satellite manufacturing in Bastrop, Texas”, the release says. When we reported the contract on 10 November, Singulus’s announcement did not give a value.
Because the contract was signed in November, the €47.1 million backlog at 30 September does not include it. Added to that backlog, the first line would take it above €107 million, by our arithmetic.
SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES, first nine months of 2025 and 2026: revenue EUR 44.3M to EUR 60.4M, order intake EUR 30.9M to EUR 60.3M. The first SpaceX line (order volume over EUR 60M, signed 10 Nov) is not in these figures. Source: SINGULUS nine-month release, 11 Nov 2026.
The Nine Months Before the Order
EBIT for the nine months improved to €1.2 million, from –€2.5 million a year earlier, and the gross margin rose from 32.5% to 35.4%, Singulus said. In the third quarter, revenue was €15.1 million against €13.0 million a year earlier, and EBIT –€1.4 million against –€1.2 million. That quarter’s loss compares with first-half EBIT of about €2.6 million, by our arithmetic.
Order intake reached €60.3 million, from €30.9 million, 1.95 times, by our arithmetic; €22.4 million of it came in the third quarter. The release says orders totalling €15.3 million were written off in connection with ending delivery obligations to Triumph Science and Technology Group of China, and that free cash flow stood at €11.7 million at 30 September. Headcount rose to 325 from 290 at the end of 2025.
Triumph Out, SpaceX In
On 21 October, the release says, Singulus took out “a subordinated secured loan of approximately € 22.75 million” and used the proceeds to fully repay liabilities owed to Triumph and its affiliates. Triumph has signed an agreement to sell its approximately 16.75% stake to A1681X GmbH & Co. KG of Munich, whose principal shareholder is Roland Lacher, Singulus’s co-founder.
The release says the Supervisory Board and Markus Ehret agreed to end his appointment to the executive board effective 31 December, after more than 16 years, and ties the timing to “the refinancing by technology partner SpaceX and the restructuring of business relations with Triumph”. The 10 November release said SpaceX “provided significant funding to SINGULUS in March 2026 and additionally in October 2026 as part of the recently announced subordinated secured loan”.
100 GW Against the US Market
Elon Muskposted on 10 November that “SpaceX has ordered 100 GW/year of HJT solar manufacturing equipment from Singulus in Germany”. Singulus’s own wording, repeated in the nine-month release, gives no period for the more-than-100 GW figure.
As we read it, one customer now sets the scale of the company: the first SpaceX line alone is larger than the backlog Singulus reported at 30 September and more than 72% of its 2026 revenue forecast, by our arithmetic, and the release ties the board change to the refinancing by SpaceX. How many more lines follow, and at what value, is not in the documents we read.
SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES nine-month release, 11 Nov 2026
“The first line under the broader supply agreement has an order volume of over € 60 million.”
Three Implications
FOR SINGULUS The first line is more than 72% of its approximately €83.0 million 2026 revenue forecast, by our arithmetic, and the release says it plans to deliver multiple additional lines to SpaceX.
FOR SPACEXElon Musk posted that SpaceX has ordered 100 GW per year of HJT solar manufacturing equipment from Singulus; Singulus’s release gives no period for the more-than-100 GW figure.
FOR INVESTORS The release says orders of €15.3 million were written off as Singulus ended delivery obligations to Triumph, whose approximately 16.75% stake is being sold to A1681X.
The framework describes the supercycle as running on “a nine-layer industrial stack that begins in mineral extraction and ends in geopolitical control.”
As we read it, a German equipment maker pricing a solar cell line for a satellite maker sits at the energy end of that stack. The framework predates this contract and does not discuss SpaceX or Singulus.
What Is Not Established
The release gives the first line’s order volume only as over €60 million. The value and number of the additional lines and the period for the more-than-100 GW figure are not in the documents we read. Nor are how much of the €22.75 million loan SpaceX provided, or how much of the first line Singulus expects to book as revenue in 2026.
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Singulus put a figure on SpaceX’s first heterojunction line, an order volume of over €60 million, larger than its whole €47.1 million backlog at 30 September. Its nine-month revenue rose about 36% to €60.4 million and order intake doubled, the release says, and it kept its forecast of about €83.0 million for 2026.
A note on sourcing. We read SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES’ nine-month results release of 11 November 2026 in full, which gives the first SpaceX line’s order volume, the results, the backlog, the loan and the board change, and its 10 November release on the contract. Musk’s wording comes from his own post on X; the 2025 US installation figure from SEIA and Wood Mackenzie. Ratios are our arithmetic.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
