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Why work with ESA Broker in Portugal?

In the space sector, IPN is an active member of ESA's Technology Transfer Broker Network supporting the commercialisation of space technology in non-space markets and broadcasting the best and most promising space technologies, developed by companies and academia, enhancing new commercial ventures, licencing agreements and expanding their market outreach.

In addition, with the support of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), IPN manages the ESA Business Incubation Centre in Portugal - a programme that supports entrepreneurs and startups up to 5 years old to use a space asset to create innovative businesses in other sectors - and the ESA Ambassador Platform for Satcom & Integrated Applications Promotion, a programme that funds demonstrator and feasibility study projects, supporting the use of satellite communications or a combination of two or more space assets to generate new or improve existing services in non-space markets.

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About ESA Broker Portugal - Instituto Pedro Nunes

IPN has more than two decades of experience in innovation and technology transfer and since its creation in 1991 the company has participated in more than 200 R&TD projects in consortia or by contracts with more than 200 companies, some of those outputting patented products.

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DyMDeST ? Dynamic Multi-criteria Decision Support Tool

The algorithm was originally developed as a method for selecting the best landing site for spacecraft, based on criteria such as terrain texture ...

Autonomous Inertia Estimation for Transportation

Congestion is a major problem in many highways and multilane roads nearby major cities in Europe and worldwide. ...

Filament Winding

Filament winding is a manufacturing process for high-performance composite material parts and components, which yields products with high strength/wei ...

High Pressure Injection Resin Transfer Moulding (HP-IRTM)

The Institution has been involved in national funded projects focused in space, aeronautics and automotive applications and has a dedicated team to de ...

DAAA ? Drone Active Antenna Array

One of the current trends is for the use of drones, also known as Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), in a number of civil and commercial scenarios. ...

Fairing shell with Amorim ablative thermal cork composite

Cork Composite materials used for thermal insulation and ablation, flexible and lightweight with good damping and acoustic properties.

Cork composites are used where lightweight, thermal insulation and damping/acoustic management is needed, the ability to agglomerate cork with a numbe ...

GNSS Galileo Code Receiver

Urban environments have rich GNSS reflected signals from buildings, trees, bridges and other objects multipath) which can contaminate Code ...

Verification and validation of safety-critical systems – Fault Injection

Aerospace, automotive, industry, defense, telecommunications are some of the areas posing new challenges to the software industry in term of high avai ...

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