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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 manufacture three carbon-fibre stray light baffles for the ESA’s Altius satellite. These devices will pre...

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 innovative scientific instrument, built and designed in Ireland. The Irish Times reports that a Pay...