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Go to topicFrank Salzgeber, Head of Commercial Development at ESA's Commercial Promotion Office (left), and Prof. Lachezar Filipov, Deputy Director of Sciences at the Bulgarian Space Research Institute.
The second event in the frame of ESA’s information campaign on the SURE initiative took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. 25 scientists accepted the invitation of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and ESA to participate at a half-day information meeting. The Bulgarian Space Research Institute was co-organiser of the event in Sofia.