16/04/2025
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Annually, cutting-edge applied sciences developed by the European House Company (ESA) for its complicated missions and scientific discoveries discover new life in purposes used to learn Earth and enhance our every day lives.
From 9–13 April, ESA was visitor of honour on the fiftieth Worldwide Exhibition of Innovations Geneva in Switzerland with greater than 1000 innovations, which attracted 30 000 guests from the general public. ESA showcased its new applied sciences and purposes which have been invented for house missions and patented to be used in and outdoors the house area.
ESA engineers are specialists in house applied sciences and contribute to resolve issues confronted by growth initiatives and ESA missions. ESA applies for patents when its employees creates innovations then makes these cutting-edge improvements out there to business throughout the house sector inside its Member States.
ESA’s Know-how Switch and ESA’s Patents Workplace sometimes recordsdata about 10 new patent purposes per yr. To this point, ESA has a portfolio of 117 innovations protected by 551 granted patents and patent purposes.
ESA’s patents cowl a variety of applied sciences, from propulsion methods to satellite tv for pc altimetry strategies. They’re instrumental in advancing house missions and enhancing the effectivity and effectiveness of house applied sciences.
Nuria Hernández Alfageme, Engineering Patent Portfolio Supervisor at ESA commented, “Some ESA innovations are so superior that it takes time for them to be adopted by business however then we help business to make it possible for once they face technical issues ESA specialists may also help them discover options and help them in one of the simplest ways.”
According to ESA’s Technique 2040 to help commercialisation of house in Europe, ESA has a everlasting open name for concepts (OSIP) to firms and startups. It additionally affords expertise switch providers, varied funding alternatives or facilitates entry to non-public funding. ESA laboratory services can be utilized for testing. Additional tailor-made help is accessible by way of ESA’s Directorate of Commercialisation, Trade and Competitiveness.
35 years of Know-how Switch
Luca del Monte, Head of the Commercialisation division at ESA who introduced on the occasion, mentioned: “In 2025, ESA celebrates 35 years of Know-how Switch. ESA’s space-related innovation community is made up of virtually 200 professionals from round Europe to assist business succeed: Know-how Brokers, ESA Enterprise incubation managers, PhiLab managers, and Enterprise Purposes Ambassadors. Up to now, this has achieved greater than 450 expertise transfers,”
“Innovation is core to ESA missions as constructing for house is a fancy enterprise. This affords up a wealth of recent enterprise alternatives by way of expertise switch to develop Europe’s know-how, create jobs and prosperity and enhance lives. Europe’s personal funding in house continues to extend, reaching a brand new document excessive in 2024, with European house ventures elevating greater than €1.5 billion (+56% from 2023),” he added.
ESA’s stand introduced an array of ESA innovation success tales as inspiration for novel enterprise alternatives, services:
Two OMEGA watches have been on show, the Speedmaster X-33 Skywalker and the Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer, which incorporate superior applied sciences developed by ESA. The Marstimer is the primary wristwatch to show the time on Earth and Mars. Developed in partnership with ESA’s Mars exploration groups and examined at ESA–ESTEC, this timepiece is space-tough and Mars-mission prepared.
Digital Video Broadcast DVB-S2 & DVB-S2X enabled by ESA patents is utilized by most satellite tv for pc operators worldwide for tv and knowledge broadcasting providers. It permits providers comparable to: Digital Satellite tv for pc Information Gathering; Direct-to-Residence broadcasting; Maritime and civil aviation web entry; and Small transportable terminals for journalists and different professionals. It’s the important commonplace for expertise for DVB-S2 commonplace (ETSI EN 302 307).
Germany’s Terraplasma Medical, initially supported by ESA Enterprise Incubation Centre Bavaria, has developed a remedy for bacterial an infection in wounds and different pores and skin remedy gadgets by making use of ‘chilly plasma’ stemming from experiments on the Worldwide House Station.
This yr marks 50 years of ESA and house innovation. In a joint celebration on the 50th version of the Geneva Worldwide Exhibition of Innovations, ESA shared with the general public how it contributes to innovation and the way Know-how Switch helps bridge the hole between house and terrestrial markets to raise the way forward for Europe.
