Lithuania becomes ESA Associate Member state
Lithuania signed an Association Agreement with ESA on 28 April 2021, which entered into force on 21 May.
This Association Agreement between ESA and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, builds on the successful results achieved under the previous frameworks of cooperation and enters into force for a duration of seven years. Comprising 18 Articles and two Annexes, it orchestrates the strengthening of Lithuania’s relations with ESA.
Ms Aušrinė Armonaitė, Minister of Economy and Innovation, signed the Association Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and ESA on 28 April in Vilnius. Associate membership became effective on 21 May, upon notification that respective internal procedures had been completed, which included ratification by the Lithuanian parliament on 20 May.
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International Partnership Programme
The International Partnership Programme (IPP) is a 5 year, £152 million programme run by the UK Space Agency. IPP uses the UK Space sector’s research and innovation strengths to deliver a sustainable, economic or societal benefit to undeveloped nations and developing economies. IPP is funded from the BEIS Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). As GCRF forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) ring-fenced budget, IPP is required to be fully ODA compliant and will be delivered in line with the UN sustainability goals.
IPP is running a call for proposals to select 1 successful bid (that can include multiple organisations) to deliver a “satellite-enabled data services public policy course”.
As a flying laboratory, ESA’s OPS-SAT will test and validate new techniques in mission control and on-board systems. (Credit: ESA)
PARIS (ESA PR) OPS-SAT is the world’s first open, in-orbit testbed for new spacecraft software and applications. By conducting low-cost, low-risk experiments with OPS-SAT, teams from across Europe are ushering in a new era for European spaceflight innovation and commercial opportunity.
OPS-SAT’s commissioning phase ended in September and the first experiments are now being carried out in orbit
Innovative new technologies are being tested on OPS-SAT in areas such as artificial intelligence, data compression, and space-based web services
Daiteq Selected as the First ESA NOEL-V User
Gothenburg, Sweden December 11, 2020 Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES), a leading provider of mission critical electronic solutions, proudly announced from the RISC-V Summit that its new NOEL-V processor model developed out of its design center, Cobham Gaisler, is in use by daiteq’s European Space Agency (ESA) research activity, “Evaluation and Instruction Set Extension of a RISC-V Soft Core for Space.”
The NOEL-V processor IP core is available under a dual licensing scheme, both as a commercial license and in a free open source version, as part of Cobham Gaisler’s GRLIB IP core library. To enable research and commercialization of third-party extensions, Cobham Gaisler also provides a free license for select ESA technology research activities. daiteq is the first company to access the commercial variant of NOEL-V under this scheme.