The new Department of Aerospace and Geodesy of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has started its operation in the winter semester of 2019. Minister-President Dr. Markus Söder has already announced that in his government declaration on April 18, 2018. The faculty is at the center of Bavaria’s aerospace strategy, which Söder presented at TUM’s Garching research campus. Former TUM President Wolfgang A. Herrmann emphasized the societal spin-off effects of aerospace technologies. He explained that by virtue of geodetic systems (remote sensing, satellite navigation), aerospace is becoming a “Mission Earth” because these intertwined technologies are taking mobility on and above the “blue planet” into new dimensions that are reshaping everyday human life.