Tag: research
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...
ESA announces three new Invitations to Tender under the ARTES 4.0 programme
The ESA Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) 4.0 Future Preparation (FP) strategy is designed to identify new market opportunities, define future technology needs, monitor regulatory trends, and...
The European Space Agency (ESA) invites you to the ESA IP & Patents Series 2024-2025, a comprehensive webinar series hosted in collaboration between the ESA SME Office and the ESA Commercialisation Services Department on the ESA Learning Hub. This...
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...
From 20 to 22 March 2024, ESA’s Future Space Transportation preparation programme (Future Launchers Preparatory Programme – FLPP) hosted the ESA Space Transportation Pitch Week: a series of virtual events exploring new technological concepts for space transportation.
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Washington DC (UPI) Jan 28, 2024
Iran has launched three satellites into space with a rocket that had failed multiple times before, Iranian officials announced Sunday. Western authorities have said the move improves Tehran's ballistic missile capabilities.
Iran has claimed the launch is part its peaceful civilian space program, but U.S. officials said in a 2023 worldwide threat assessment said launches like this one an

Mbryonics, an Irish-based company, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to deliver an optical terminal for the second phase of the Space-BACN program. Space-BACN is a program initiated by the U.S....
Dugway, United States (AFP) Sept 24, 2023
A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.
Scientists have high hopes for the sample, saying it will provide a better understanding of the formation of our solar system and how Earth became habitable.
"Touchdown of the Osiris-Rex sample return c

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) in an effort to enhance India's space capabilities. The agreement, announced...