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The latest news from the space business community. Read about our programmes and events, as well as discovering more about the startups and entrepreneurs and their latest technological advancements.
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Creating jobs by bringing space technologies down to earth
ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme brings space down to Earth – from comets to start-ups. We support entrepreneurs who use space technology and space data in completely new fields and applications. This local investment successfully creates hundreds of jobs each...
DutchReader by Knowble: learn a language via the local news
Do you want to practise and improve your Dutch? Then download the Chrome extension from DutchReader developed by our incubatee Knowble. DutchReader is a smart tool to read news in Dutch. It helps learners improve their vocabulary faster by offering personalized...
Growth capital for ParkBee innovative parking solution
Company car parks stand empty outside of normal working hours. ParkBee, an ESA BIC Noordwijk incubatee, thinks that’s a great shame. In cooperation with the parking apps Parkmobile and Park-line, it is making office building car park spaces accessible to the public....
Chinese space company HEAD Aerospace sets up office in SBIC
HEAD Aerospace Technology Co., headquartered in Beijing, China, has opened its new Dutch office in Noordwijk, making it the first private company from the Chinese space industry to set up business in The Netherlands. In the presence of officials from the company and...
Angel investment in JOHAN Sports
SBIC Participations announced this morning that they will invest in JOHAN Sports. Via this investment JOHAN Sports expects to accelerate its growth ambitions, to develop their tracking and analysis system further. The first investment from SBIC Participations was...
JOHAN Sports goes live
JOHAN Sports offers the first affordable and usable tracking system for field sports on the global sports market. Every player wears a small, light and robust device to track their location, speed, distance travelled and accelerations. This measured data is visualised...

