ESRIC NEWS I May edition
European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC)
The European Space Resources Innovation Center (ESRIC) fosters innovation and growth in the space resources industry
Welcome to the seventh edition of the ESRIC Newsletter!
We are looking ahead towards the summer, as well as the coming year and have some exciting news for you. So get your calendars ready to block the dates for Space Resources Week 2025!
We also look forward to opening the fifth call for applications for the Start-up Support Programme, and invite you to listen to the first season of our podcast mini-series: Resourceful.
Save the date for the 2025 edition of Space Resources Week, foreseen to take place between 19 and 21 May, hosted again at the European Convention Center Luxembourg (ECCL).
The event is organised together with the Luxembourg Space Agency, European Space Agency - ESA and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).
Prior to the conference, we will also be hosting the internationally acclaimed two-day professional course on Space Resources, planned for 16 and 17 May in the same venue. More details soon!
To enhance the development of technological enablers that will trigger operational lunar ISRU activities, the ESRIC Start-up Support Programme was launched in 2021 as the first worldwide incubation programme, entirely dedicated to space resource utilization technologies.
Since the first call, the programme has been a success and has so far led to the incubation of companies such as Four Point, Lightigo s.r.o. and Spacebackend in the local space ecosystem, leading to the first operating space resources cluster including 18 active companies in commercial space.
For its fifth call for applications, the ESRIC Start-up Support Programme is strategically focusing on innovative solutions for space exploration and lunar prospecting technologies.
📌 The call will be open between 04 June and 31 July 2024 23:59 Central European Summer Time (CEST). If you missed our most recent webinar on the topic, worry not! You can access the slides presented here.
👉 Find out more on the dedicated page where the link to the submissions portal will be posted.
The month of May marked the release of the final episode (from the first season) of our six-episode mini-series.
In this episode, Steven Freeland, professor at Western Sydney University and Bond University, and Vice-Chair, United Nations COPUOS Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities - United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and Antonino Salmeri from Lunar Policy Platform are joining the conversation, telling us more about the big regulatory questions that arise when we make great plans for space exploration.
🎧 Listen on your favourite podcasting platform:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2sQG4BI7fInbg4gjYAFM2H
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/space-resources-and-legislation/id1721167918?i=1000655680052
This mini-series is brought to you by the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC), supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). It is produced in collaboration with SciLux.
Where to find us next?
Colorado Space Resources Roundtable: 04 - 07 June, Golden Colorado, USA
iSparo: 24 - 27 June, Luxembourg
Asteroid Day: 29 June, Luxembourg
Space Tide: 08 - 12 July, Tokyo, Japan
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