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ESA Science Core Technology Development Success Story - Broadening the TT&C Industrial Base in Europe • Aug 2022
Development of TT&C subsystem capability, funded by ESA’s
Science Core Technology programme, creates another European alternative for
this critical spacecraft function for upcoming science missions, leading to
improvements for commercial sat...
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ESA Science Core Technology Development Success Story - Game-Changing European X-Ray Optics Technology • Aug 2022
A pan-European consortium of industry and research
organisations is leveraging semiconductor manufacturing capabilities to achieve
a 2-order of magnitude improvement in space X-ray telescope optics (by
developing the concept of Silicon Pore Optics...
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ESA Science Core Technology Development Success Story - Ground-Breaking Solution Enabling Demanding Optics Missions • Aug 2022
A pan-European collaboration, funded by ESA’s Science Core
Technology programme, developed Silicon Carbide (Booster SiC) – an optical
material that is stiff, low-density, highly thermally conductive with low
thermal expansion, whilst meeting s...
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ESA Science Core Technology Development Success Story - Fostering European Technology Non-Dependence • Aug 2022
The development of AQUILA, the first and only European
radiation-hardened high-accuracy accelerometer for space use, provides a
European navigation solution for upcoming missions, leading to enhanced
applications on Earth. ESA chose Ireland’s In...
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ESA Science Core Technology Development Success Story - Critical Cooling Technology Enabling Complex Science Missions • Aug 2023
Development of long-life Joule Thomson cryocoolers, funded by
ESA’s Science Core Technology programme, creates compact, performant and
competitive European solutions, with terrestrial applications in quantum
technologies. These technology develo...
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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 Science Core Technology Development Success Story - First Proton Diverter Developed for the Space Sector • Aug 2022
The spacecraft of ESA’s ATHENA (Advanced Telescope for High
Energy Astrophysics) will be exposed to a considerable flux of charged
particles due to the mission’s large Halo orbit in L1. Indeed, the protons in
solar winds are in the energy rang...
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The OECD publishes the 2nd Edition of the Handbook on Measuring the Space Economy • Aug 2022
The OECD has published the second edition of the ‘Handbook
on measuring the Space Economy’. Ten years after the first iteration, this step
was justified with a strong diversification of actors contributing to the space
economy in recent years,...
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ESA Technology Transfer Success Story - A new perspective: satellite image processing algorithms to improve lives on Earth • Aug 2022
Cloudflight’s code optimisation expertise, developed in
Austria for analysing satellite imagery (from ENVISAT - ENVIronmental SATellite),
was applied to enhance the underlying technology of UK-startup GiveVision’s
SightPlus device, designed to...
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ESA Technology Transfer Success Story - From space debris to rogue drones: how a net-firing gun could help counter both problems • Aug 2022
Italian Engineering firm STAM is developing a net-firing gun,
called the Drone Catcher, based on ESA-funded research to remove space debris,
to tackle the growing problem of disruption caused by illegally-flown drones at
public events.
By 2026,...
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ESA Technology Transfer Success Story - Dry electrodes to monitor vital signs: From astronauts in space to foetuses in utero • Aug 2022
Dry electrode technology, initially designed by Swiss
organisation CSEM to monitor ESA astronauts’ health whilst floating in
microgravity (LTMS system), allows foetal cardiologists to isolate and
continuously monitor a foetal heartbeat on an ele...
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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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