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The company explained how the conditions of spaceflight elevate the risk of infectious diseases by altering both human and microbial physiology.

Galway company collaborates with European Space Agency

Aquila Bioscience, a University of Galway spin-out is collaborating with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a nature-inspired pathogen decontamination technology for safer space exploration.

Business • 13 Jan

The two craft must maintain a distance of around 150m apart

ESA launches spacecraft using Cork-made tech on board

The European Space Agency has launched Proba-3, a cutting-edge Sun-observing mission, using technology partly developed by a Cork-based company, aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation's flagship rocket.

World • 05 Dec 24

The two craft have to maintain a distance of around 150 metres apart

Delay to launch of spacecraft using Cork made tech

The launch into space of a European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will use technology partly developed by a Cork-based company was postponed earlier today.

Business • 04 Dec 24

Proveye signs €900k contract with European Space Agency

Proveye has signed a second contract with the European Space Agency worth just under €900,000.

Business • 26 Nov 24

Réaltra designed and built technologies used in Europe's Ariane 6 rocket

109 Irish companies secure European Space Agency support

Over 100 Irish companies secured European Space Agency support last year in what was a significant year for the Irish space industry.

Business • 15 Oct 24

A testing replica of the Ariane 6 space launch system in French Guiana

ESA's Ariane 6 debut launch likely delayed to next year

The first launch of Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket has slipped into 2024 after an incomplete recent ground test, the head of the European Space Agency has suggested.

World • 16 Aug 23

Ariane 5 rocket launched from French Guiana

Europe's final rocket lifts off for last mission

Europe's Ariane 5 rocket has blasted off from French Guiana for the final time, carrying two military communications satellites.

World • 06 Jul 23

Barry Kavanagh, CEO of O.C.E. Technology

O.C.E. Technology wins European Space Agency deal

Irish space technology company O.C.E. Technology has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a multicore real-time operating system "OCEOSmp" for use in mission critical software.

Business • 26 May 23

JUICE, pictured in a clean room at the European Space Agency's headquarters in Toulouse, southwestern France, last April

European mission to Jupiter postponed over bad weather

The European Space Agency's mission to Jupiter and its moons has been postponed due to adverse weather conditions.

Science and Technology • 13 Apr 23

Moonshot: Irish space businesses reaching for the stars

No longer the stuff of science fiction, Irish businesses are looking to the stars for new opportunities.

Business • 05 Feb 23

Proveye founders, Jerome O'Connell and Professor Nick Holden, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering

Proveye secures €1m in seed funding

Proveye, an Irish start-up that uses advanced image processing techniques to solve problems in the agriculture industry, has closed a €1 million seed funding round.

Business • 25 Jan 23

Rosemary Coogan holds two Masters degrees and a PhD

NI-born scientist among new European astronauts

The European Space Agency has announced its new class of career astronauts, two women and three men, including Rosemary Coogan from Northern Ireland.

World • 23 Nov 22

Gateway is an international initiative led by two main contributors, NASA and ESA

Skytek awarded contract from European Space Agency

Irish company Skytek has been awarded a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop flight support software for the new Gateway space station, an element of their ambition to bring a European to the Moon by 2030.

Business • 16 Nov 22

It is part of Ireland's investment in the 'InCubed' programme, which supports the development of new commercial earth observation products

Two Irish firms awarded European Space Agency funding

Two Irish companies, Davra and Treemetrics, have been awarded co-funding under the European Space Agency's Earth Observation programme, with a total value of over €3 million.

Business • 03 Oct 22

The hope is that forecasters will gain precious hours in predicting near-term storms and floods that could endanger lives (Image: Thales Alenia Space)

Hi-tech satellite for earlier weather warnings unveiled

Europe has unveiled the first of a €4 billion family of satellites designed to give earlier warning of extreme weather that has been causing havoc across the globe this year.

Climate Change • 07 Sep 22

Millions of people have been impacted by the flooding

10 times normal rainfall drove Pakistan flooding - ESA

Rainfall ten times heavier than usual caused Pakistan's devastating floods, the European Space Agency said, as it released satellite images of a vast lake created by the overflowing Indus river.

World • 01 Sep 22

NASA's Perseverance rover has collected the first rock samples from Mars to be returned to Earth in the first step towards answering if the red planet ever hosted life.

Perseverance samples could crack life on Mars question

NASA's Perseverance rover has collected the first rock samples from Mars that could be returned to Earth in the first step towards answering if the red planet ever hosted life.

News Lens • 26 Aug 22

Minister Damien English, Mary Kathryn Midgett of danalto, Tom Kelly of Enterprise Ireland and David McDonald of danalto

Dublin company wins contract with European Space Agency

Danalto, a Dublin-based IoT software company has won a contract with the European Space Agency.

Business • 07 Dec 21

Between four and six career astronauts will join the ESA workforce as permanent staff members (stock image)

270 Irish candidates apply to Europe's space agency

There are 270 applications from Irish candidates among the more than 22,500 people who have applied to become the European Space Agency's next astronauts.

Science and Technology • 23 Jun 21

Spacewalk disrupted by technical issues at ISS

A mission to install the first of six new solar wings outside the International Space Station was unuseful because of technical issues, NASA has said.

News Lens • 17 Jun 21

Irish motorsport tech start-up raises €300,000

Motoklik, an Irish motorsport tech start-up, has raised €300,000 in seed funding from investors and Enterprise Ireland.

Business • 03 Mar 21

Barry Kavanagh, the chief executive of O.C.E. Technology

O.C.E. Technology's new operating system for spacecraft

Irish space technology company O.C.E. Technology said it has successfully demonstrated OCEOS - its new real-time operating system for microcontrollers on spacecraft - at the European Space Agency.

Business • 04 Dec 20

The map contains data gathered by the Gaia observatory which took off from Earth in 2013 (Pic: Courtesy of ESA)

3D map of Milky Way sheds light on workings of galaxy

The European Space Agency has released the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way, shedding new light on the workings of our galaxy.

News Lens • 04 Dec 20

Society, Economy and Environment (SEE) Space network bids to forge links with European Space Agency

Ireland's first ever 'Space Region' established

Cork Institute of Technology and Waterford Institute of Technology have come together to form the Society, Economy and Environment (SEE) Space network.

Business • 30 Oct 20

Icon will develop new space imaging technology to detect, monitor, analyse and characterise the sources of environmental problems

Icon Group designs new global imaging platform for ESA

Irish earth observation and geoscience company Icon Group has won a contract from the European Space Agency to develop the Danube Environmental Risk Assessment Platform.

Business • 16 Oct 20