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Europe decides to increase ESA’s budget by 17% compared to the last Ministerial meeting in 2019 • Dec 2022
At the ESA Council at Ministerial level held in Paris on 22
and 23 November, government ministers representing ESA’s Member States, Associate
States and Cooperating States resolved the ESA budget for the upcoming three
years until the next C...
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European Centre for Space Economy and Commerce (ECSECO) concludes first-ever General Meeting of members in Vienna • Dec 2022
On the 9th of
November, the first General Meeting of members of ECSECO took place in Vienna,
Austria. Nearly 100 participants from 14 different countries, used this unique
opportunity to connect with other members of ECSECO, gain insights into spa...
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Seven Benefit Case Studies of ESA's Space Safety programme • Jan 2023
The ESA Space Safety Programme (S2P) contributes to the
protection of our planet, humanity and assets in space and on Earth from
hazards originating in Space, providing safety from such hazards as a service
to society. ESA Space Safety activities ...
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OECD Policy Paper: How the War in Ukraine is affecting Space Activities • Feb 2023
In November 2022, the OECD published the paper “A New
Landscape for Space Applications – Illustration from Russia’s war of aggression
against Ukraine”. The paper uses illustrations from the war in Ukraine to
highlight growing trends and de...
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Beyond Borders: Satellite Applications for Humanitarian Emergencies • Mar 2023
In August 2022, Caribou Space published
the report “Beyond Borders: Satellite Applications for Humanitarian
Emergencies” commissioned by the UK’s Humanitarian Innovation Hub, which is
funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Of...
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ESA Science Core Technology Development Success Story - Unrivalled High Accuracy Star Tracker • Aug 2022
Funded by ESA’s Science Core Technology Programme, the
development of ASTRO XP – an autonomous high accuracy star tracker of the 0.1
arcsec class – demonstrates leadership and strengthens European competitiveness
in the Attitude Determinatio...
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ESA Technology Transfer Success Story - Powering a village from a shipping container: space structures to transform portable energy generation • Aug 2022
Using ESA patented modular deployment technology, originally
designed to deploy very large support structures in space, Spanish firm POLAR
Developments (a spin-out from the company Comet Ingeniería) offers
near-instantaneous high capacity photovo...
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ESA Technology Transfer Success Story - The missing layer: how aircraft constellations could provide a new perspective on our planet • Aug 2022
Luxembourgish firm SkyfloX is developing ESA-patented ORCA (Optical
and RF Constellation on Aircraft) to equip commercial aircraft with small
sensors (weighting less than a small suitcase), forming the ‘missing layer’ for
a range of Earth Obse...
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ESA Technology Transfer Success Story - Space at home: using space heritage to increase efficiency and automation in the home • Aug 2022
Slovenian firm SkyLabs developed its spectroscopy technology,
supported by ESA, into an AI-supported miniature textile composition and colour
recognition apparatus that can be integrated into IoT-connected home
appliances, such as washing machines...
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ESA Technology Transfer Success Story - Landing zone assessment using Lidar: space technology to enable a new class of drones • Aug 2022
Canadian SME NGC Aerospace adapted their Hazard Detection and
avoidance (HDA) software for lunar landers to enable autonomous safe landing
site identification and selection for large unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A
new Lidar-based approach to H...
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ESA Technology Transfer Success Story - Uncovering the secrets of data: spacecraft-grade AI to better inform European SMEs • Aug 2022
KETTY, a machine learning solution developed by Italian firm
SATE with ESA funding to detect anomalies in satellite telemetry data, has been
used to improve the performance of Austrian IT specialists eMentalist’s event
detection platform for SME...
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ESA Technology Transfer Success Story - Closing the loop: how space technology could relieve water scarcity on Earth • Aug 2022
Using technology created for ESA’s MELiSSA (Micro-Ecological
Life Support System Alternative) Project (to build a closed life support
system), French company Firmus successfully commercialised spin-off technology
FGWRS, a terrestrial grey water ...
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