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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 - 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 - 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 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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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 - 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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