The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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A manually controlled robotic part-positioner mounts an item on a car on a conveyor belt at a factory in Portugal. The system controlling speed and positioning to fit the dashboard into the car draws on space technology developed for the automatic docking of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle to the International Space Station. It was developed by Portuguese MDUSpace, a start-up company from ESA Business Incubation Centre Noordwijk in the Netherlands.