AIS2018 breaks records around the world

May 29, 2018 | Featured, Hackathon

2200 participants in 70 cities in 35 countries on 5 continents. Including 73 participants in 15 teams, 4 challenge experts and 9 mentors in Leiden. This was ActInSpace 2018 in numbers. But the story behind the numbers is much more interesting. For one day and one...

‘Pac-Man’ in the clouds at GEOSS Hack 2018

May 16, 2018 | Featured, Hackathon, Partner

SBIC Noordwijk has organized quite a number of space-related hackathons, such as the NASA Space Apps Challenge and ActInSpace, but we also like to attend and help out at other hackathons and entrepreneurial events. In the first week of May, SBIC’s community manager...

32 Hours of Intergalactic Problem Solving

May 2, 2017 | Hackathon

Catchy slogans, lucrative business plans, awesome apps and beautiful visuals are some of the results of the hard work of the 8 participating teams in this year’s Space Apps Challenge held at SBIC Noordwijk. Space Apps Challenge is an international hackathon that...

Cheetah wins ESA App Challenge

Nov 28, 2013 | Hackathon

SBIC Noordwijk congratulates Cheetah with winning the ESA App Challenge 2013. Cheetah obtains crop-sourcing information from Copernicus Sentinel-2 (and MERIS) on land coverage and crop phenology products. Market price information is partly crowd-sourced and augments...