Motor bikers who sweat in protective leathers, or bakers at their ovens, may welcome electrically cooled underwear developed by a Spanish company from the space suits of ESA’s astronauts. ESA and its industrial contractors actively promote technology transfer from space to the ground.
To reduce vibration in newly designed cars, a German firm markets software first used for ESA’s Columbus Laboratory on the International Space Station.
A biomedical camera company in the UK has a new way to spot cancer cells using a superconducting detector developed by ESA’s space scientists. And so on -- expect many more spin-offs like these!
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Related links
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| • | ESA's Technology Transfer Programme (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/TTP2/index.html) |
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| • | ESA technology spin-off successes (http://www.esa.int/esapub/br/br152/br152e.html) |
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| • | Technology transfer down to Earth (http://www.esa.int/esapub/br/br175.htm) |
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