September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
... future space exploration missions and the global economy. Open and closed configurations of the ICE Cubes facility. On the launch pad ICE Cubes is the first commercial partnership with ESA. It will provide rapid, simplified and low-cost...
08 December 2020
First ever COVID-19 drug research in space through ICE Cubes
... initiative for the pharmaceutical industry to widen their development opportunities via space research. Commercial services such as ICE Cubes provide for fast access, allowing for drug development R&D in and through space. Science in low Earth orbit...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
... to patent the Nanolab and its power frame because I wanted to create an ecosystem. Today, we are competing with ICE Cubes (a public-private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Belgium-based Space Applications Services...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
...where batteries drain, temperatures fluctuate rapidly and where radiation doses are higher. Artist’s renderings of Lunar Ice Cube (top left), Lunar Flashlight (top right), LunaH-Map (bottom left) and BioSentinel. On interplanetary missions, a CubeSat...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
...called ‘space professional’ will not have to have any experience of space at all! The International Commercial Experiment (ICE) Cubes control centre, a public-private partnership with ESA near Munich, Germany. Traditionally a Master’s degree has been...
