The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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The Space Solutions University (S2UN) Challenge winning team – the Italian PhD-student company Harvesting New Suns (HANS) – with their professor and the jury. From left: Frank M. Salzgeber (Head of ESA Technology Transfer Programme Office), Andrea Barbarino (HANS team member), Danilo Roascio (HANS team member), Valerio Sartini (ESA Technology Transfer Programme Office), Marta Nervo (HANS team member), Dr Bernd Geiger (Managing General Partner of Triangle), Shiva Loccisano (Technology Transfer and Industrial Liaison Division at Politecnico di Torino) and Martin Van Staveren (European Patent Office).