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How do university laboratories and local aerospace companies get their hardware onto key space science missions? The answer is ESA's PRODEX programme (PROgramme de Développement d'Expériences scientifiques). Right now, the European Space Agency - ESA manages over 400 active Prodex contracts. These partnerships bring together academic research and commercial space industry. They directly fund the development of highly advanced scientific instruments and experiments across Earth observation, microgravity, and space science missions, such as: 🛰️ ESA Space Science: #Smile, #Plato, #CometInterceptor, #Envision, #LISAmission, #ExoMars, #NewAthena, and #Arrakihs. 🧑🚀 Orbital Labs: Instrumentation for the International #SpaceStation. 🌍 Global Partnerships on non-ESA missions including NASA's Commercial Lunar Payloads Services #CLPS, JAXA's #Solar_C, and #POLAR2. By participating in Prodex, 17 European nations boost their national scientific know-how, forge industrial and institutional cooperation, and increase their competitiveness in the space domain. 👇 Read about recent and upcoming successes: https://lnkd.in/eAwvmPVy