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The IRIS2 program’s research and development is funded by the European Union and the European Space Agency.
Crew-12 carried ESA’s French astronaut Sophie Adenot, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
Crew-12 carried ESA French astronaut Sophie Adenot, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
The activity was funded through the Discovery element of ESA's Basic Activities to allow NGI and ESA to explore risks, refine requirements, and shape a practical tool for future missions.
NGI designed the calibration chamber together with APVacuum in an ESA-funded activity.
€30,000 of the minimum €60,000 per startup will be provided by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades through the European Space Agency (ESA).
Francisca Paiva was a master's student at KU Leuven and an intern at the European Space Agency during the research.
Startups incubated at the new ESA-BIC centers will have access to office space either free of charge or on terms more favorable than market conditions.
Silvio Sinibaldi is the planetary protection officer at the European Space Agency and the senior author on the study.
The three new ESA-BIC centers in Castilla-La Mancha, the Región de Murcia, and País Vasco join a national ESA-BIC network that already includes sites in Andalucía, Cataluña, Castilla y León, Comunidad de Madrid, and Comunidad Valenciana.
On 16 December, European Space Agency member states approved a prioritized work plan that includes the Mani mission, allowing the project to advance to its next development phase.
Gianluca Furano is Senior On-Board Computer Engineer at ESA and emphasizes selecting sovereign technology with long-term availability for missions expected to remain in space for over a decade.
The national ESA-BIC network sites are cofinanced and coordinated by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades through the Agencia Espacial Española (AEE) and by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Startups incubated at the new ESA-BIC centers will receive a minimum of 50 hours of business advisory support.
Startups incubated at the new ESA-BIC centers will receive a minimum of 20 hours of technical support.
Each startup incubated at the new ESA-BIC centers will receive a minimum financial incentive and cofinancing of €60,000.
With sustained support from the European Space Agency (ESA), the HECC is intended to become Europe's central control facility for human and robotic exploration missions.
Startups incubated at the new ESA-BIC centers will receive a minimum of 10 hours dedicated to defining industrial protection strategies or legal advice.
Sinibaldi and Paiva built a computer model to simulate spacecraft-borne contamination on the Moon using the European Space Agency's Argonaut mission as a case study.
Radiation-induced Single Event Effects (SEE) in standard commercial hardware are a primary technical challenge for space-based AI, prompting Axelera AI and ESA to focus on Radiation Hardening by Design (RHBD) and software-level mitigation.