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Galway-made device heading to space on ESA satellite mission Tomás Flanagan. Image: ÉireComposites ÉireComposites will create carbon-fibre stray light baffles for the ESA Altius satellite, which is expected to launch in 2023. An Irish manufacturing company will produce an instrument for a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite that will assist climate research. Galway-based ÉireComposites has today (1 March) announced an agreement with Belgian company OIP Sensor Systems to design and manufac...

NASA mission blasts off with device made in Ireland Image: © dimazel/Stock.adobe.com The device to measure microgravity changes was sent to the International Space Station as part of a resupply mission. On Saturday (20 February), Northrop Grumman launched an Antares rocket and an uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft on a NASA resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Along with a restock of food and supplies on board the spacecraft, named SS Katherine Johnson, the cargo also included an...