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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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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - No such thing as a waste product: using space technology to recycle urine [Aug/2022]

URIDIS innovative electrochemical water treatment technology, developed under ESA’s MELiSSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) project is being used by Belgian company Hydrohm to treat urine on Earth, saving water and recovering ...
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Eurospace releases its annual Facts & Figures Report: The European Space Industry in 2021 [Jul/2022]

On 13 July 2022, the trade association of the European Space Industry, Eurospace, announced the release of the 26th edition of its annual report on the state of the European space manufacturing industry in 2021. Eurospace has been publishin...
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Valuing the benefits of ESA Aeolus missions to European decision makers [Jul/2022]

Earth Observation data carry a wealth of information that can contribute to interpreting geophysical phenomenon. Raw data once transformed into information can support agents solving problems by supplying actionable intelligence that reduces the u...
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European Centre for Space Economy and Commerce (ECSECO) officially opened in Vienna [Jul/2022]

On 4 July 2022, the European Centre for Space Economy and Commerce was officially opened in Vienna following a successful launch ceremony at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI). The well attended event was headlined by keynote speeches ...
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ESPI Space Venture 2021 – Entrepreneurship and Investment in the European Space Sector [Jul/2022]

The European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) published its annual Space Venture Europe report, addressing trends of entrepreneurship and private investment in Europe for 2021. In this report, ESPI estimates a record amount invested in European sp...
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ECSECO open for membership registration on its official website – www.ecseco.org [Jun/2022]

Before the official launch event on 4 July 2022, the European Centre for Space Economy and Commerce (ECSECO) is launching its website www.ecseco.org and registration of the members is now open From today onward, individuals professionally invo...
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