The start-up company Drift+Noise Polar Services won a prize in ESA`s Space Business Idea Challenge in 2016 for their application idea: near-real time ice mapping allowing: economic and safe nautical routing through the ice, tactical and strategic on-board decisions, safe distance to the ice, approaching of spectacular ice spots for tourist vessels, stop and go decisions for drilling activities. Drift+Noise Polar Services CEO Lasse Rabenstein (right) received the prize.
The Challenge was organised in order to generate new space-based application ideas and attract new companies and entrepreneurs to the ARTES Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) programme.