Spin-offs from space technology, often used in our everyday lives, will be given centre stage at the European Space Technology Transfer Conference to be held in Munich from 16 to 17 October.
Uses to which space technologies are already being put include innovative crash test systems to improve car safety, microbiological sensors for water treatment, light-weight hydrogen-tanks for environmentally friendly cars, and systems to identify sulphur in fuel and sort scrap metal. Research is also ongoing to see how space technology can be applied in state-of-the-art ultra light robots for surgery, and to produce artificial organs and prostheses.
The future potential of advanced European space technologies will be addressed at the Conference that will take place at the MunichExpo, and which is being co-organised by ESA and the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology.
“It is not always obvious what role in our daily life the spin-off of advanced technologies, originally developed for our space programmes, can play. At this conference we will be very concrete and focus on successful transfers of space technology that bring commercial benefit to the space and the non-space industry.
“We have 24 speakers who will reveal exciting new transfers in each of their sectors so everyone can see what can be achieved when using available space technologies in the research and development of new applications and systems in non-space fields,” says Frank M. Salzgeber, head of ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office and one of the instigators of the conference.
Uses to which space technologies are already being put include innovative crash test systems to improve car safety, microbiological sensors for water treatment, light-weight hydrogen-tanks for environmentally friendly cars, and systems to identify sulphur in fuel and sort scrap metal. Research is also ongoing to see how space technology can be applied in state-of-the-art ultra light robots for surgery, and to produce artificial organs and prostheses.
The future potential of advanced European space technologies will be addressed at the Conference that will take place at the MunichExpo, and which is being co-organised by ESA and the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology.
“It is not always obvious what role in our daily life the spin-off of advanced technologies, originally developed for our space programmes, can play. At this conference we will be very concrete and focus on successful transfers of space technology that bring commercial benefit to the space and the non-space industry.
“We have 24 speakers who will reveal exciting new transfers in each of their sectors so everyone can see what can be achieved when using available space technologies in the research and development of new applications and systems in non-space fields,” says Frank M. Salzgeber, head of ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office and one of the instigators of the conference.
