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Over 30 ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) across Europe have supported hundreds of start-ups for the past two decades. Next to start-ups active in the space sector, some founders have discovered applications for space technologies in various other sectors.
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The ESA BIC programme enabled MetaSensing advance in synthetic aperture radar technology
Adriano Meta’s entrepreneurial journey began over 16 years ago in Noordwijk, NL, when he applied to the European Space Agency’s first Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC). In these...
Open Cosmos, an alumnus of ESA Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC) in Harwell, UK, has had an eventful journey in 2024. Having closed over €100 million in contracts, the company is continuing its growth with satellite manufacturing facilities and...
Innovation drives progress in aerospace and engineering, and the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) are crucial for supporting start-ups leading this innovation. This article highlights two successful female founders: Dominique Waddoup of BirdShades and Cristina Aleixendri...
Revolv Space is a startup currently incubated at ESA BIC Noordwijk and working towards the goal of maximising mission return for small satellite constellations. The aerospace engineers who founded Revolv have developed an autonomous and fail-safe solar array drive...
The purpose of this questionnaire is to understand the current European space companies’ landscape in the Ground Segment and Operations Domain, collect their needs and barriers to commercial success, and investigate existing or future opportunities for ESA to support their...
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK has approved the merger of Viasat and Inmarsat after a two-phase review. The CMA found that the companies compete closely in the in-flight connectivity (IFC) market, but the deal would...
Precious Payload is excited to announce the first API software integration of their Launch.ctrl product for the space mobility company, IENAI SPACE. IENAI provides end-to-end in-space propulsion solutions, allowing engineers to intuitively design their thrusters using the open-access cloud...