NEWS & EVENTS

• 21th November, PERSEI Space attend the EIC Corporate day with OHB. It was a wonderful opportunity to hear the excellent pitch of other EIC-funded companies and get feedback from OHB.
• 18th-20th November, E.T.PACK-F and E.T.COMPACT team members attend the Space Tech Expo in Bremen. The Coordinator of the projects participated in the round table “In Space Solar Energy Harvesting” moderated by S. Tkatchova (EIC Programme Manager for Space systems & technologies).

• 31th October 2025, The EIC Community Platform interviews Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga, coordinator of the E.T.PACK-F and E.T.COMPACT projects. The interview is available here.

• 30th October: The E.T.COMPACT team member Maurizio Stefanelli defended successfully his PhD thesis entitled “Scalable Coating Techniques for Industrial Compatible Perovskite Solar Module Fabrication” at Università di Roma Tor Vergata. Congratulations Maurizio!!!
• 27th October 2025, E.T.COMPACT participates in the 2nd Portfolio Meeting in Sofia. The E.T.COMPACT and E.T.PACK-F are also presented in the National Space Forum 2025 (Nafski) organised by Branch Cosmos of the Union of Physicists in Bulgaria.

• From 29th of september to 3rd of october, UniPD and DEIMOS presented their last progress about the E.T.COMPACT project at the 76th International Astronautical Congress 2025, Sydney. (see conference section).
• 14th-19th September, TUD presented their last progress about the E.T.COMPACT project at the 39th International Electric Propulsion Conference (IEPC) 2025, London. (see conference section).
• 19th September, 2025, PERSEI Space and UC3M are interviewed by the Spanish National Television (Canal 24 Horas). See the video here. The interview starts at time around 28:45.
• 8th-11th July, TUD presented their last progress about the E.T.COMPACT project at the P38th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC), Iceland. (see conference section).
• 14th July, PERSEI Space and SENER Aeroespacial sign a license agreement on the technologies developed in the framework of the E.T.PACK-F project. Find more information here. The image shows Mr. Jesus Muñoz (CEO of PERSEI Space) and Mr. Diego Rodríguez (Space & Science General Director at Sener Aerospace & Defence ) during the signature of the agreement.

• PERSEI Space attended ESA’s Zero Debris Week at ESOC in Darmstadt 10-12 June 2025. Jesús Manuel Muñoz Tejeda joined as a panellist in the session “Challenges for the emergence of the Zero Debris Market” together with Stella Tkatchova from EIC.

• The In-Space Solar Energy Harvesting Portfolio has launched its first joint newsletter, featuring updates from all participating projects, including E.T.COMPACT (E.T.PACK Initiative): https://inspace-pathfinder.eu.
• 5-6th June 2025, the second project meeting of the E.T.COMPACT project was celebrated at Technische Universität Dresden (TUD).

• 26th May, UC3M and PERSEI Space participate in the “Innovative Propulsion – Cross Cutting Initiative” Workshop of ESA.
• 23th May, S. Tkatchova (EIC Space Manager) and G. Sánchez-Arriaga (E.T.PACK-F and E.T.COMPACT project coordinator) participate in the Zero Debris Webinar “Unlocking Funding for Zero Debris Innovation & Commercialisation” organized by ESA. More informartion here.
• From May 20th to 22nd, 2025, the E.T.COMPACT team from the University of Padova attended the “SPACE MEETINGS Veneto” event in Venice. A talk entitled “Activities for a Sustainable Space at the University of Padova” was given. It included the E.T.PACK Initiative and the E.T.COMPACT project.

• On 15th May, E. Leonardi from Halocell Europe and A.Valmorbida from UniPD represented the E.T.COMPACT project at the “Beyond Earth: The Future of Space Solar Energy” workshop, organized by the JUMP INTO SPACE coordinator Tor Vergata University of Rome, and hosted by the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

• 23th-25th April, TUD presented their last progress about the E.T.COMPACT project at the Plasma Processing and Technology International Conference – Plasma Tech 2025, Portugal. (see conference section).
• 23th April, G. Sánchez Arriaga presents “Deorbiting space debris with electrodynamic tethers: an opportunity to make experiments in the Earth’s magnetosphere ” in the VIII RIA-MAD4SPACE 2025 Meeting.

• 17th April, Giovanni Anese won the “Best student paper award” at the 9th European Conference on Space Debris held in Bonn on 1-4 April 2025. The title of the paper was ”Spin modulation for deorbiting with electrodynamic tethers”.

• 9th April, G. Sánchez Arriaga participates in the webinar “Tackling the Space Debris Challenges” of the Future Tech Week. Organized by the EIC Space manager Stela Tkatchova, the panelists list included Stefano Antonetti (D-Orbit), Hira Virdee (Lumi Space), Mylene Bosyio (Aldoria), and G. Sánchez-Arriaga (UC3M, PERSEI Space).

• 1th-4th April, several team members from PERSEI Space, UNIPD and UC3M presented their last progress about the E.T.PACK-F and E.T.COMPACT projects at the 9th European Conference on Space Debris in Bonn, Germany. The 5 conference proceedings are available in this website (see conference section).

• 2nd April, G. Sánchez Arriaga participates in the Workshop “Seeding Success: Strategies for Early-Stage Investment” at the EIC Summit 2025.

• 14 February 2025, the selected results of the qualification campaign of the E.T.PACK-F deorbit device are available here. The results of vibration tests (sine and random) and thermal vacuum tests performed on the qualification model of the deorbit device are available.
• 4 February, 2025. Gonzalo Sánchez Arriaga participated in the Round Table “Mesa redonda de experiencias Transition” in the Infoday EIC Pathfinder and Transition 2025 in Madrid.
• 29-30 January, 2025. Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga (UC3M) and Julia Martin (PERSEI) attend the Science for Industry Event in Madrid. They have the opportunity to pitch in front of several investors and explain the E.T.PACK-F and the E.T.COMPACT projects.
• 21 January 2025, The EC publishes the “Report for study on innovative practices in legislation around emerging tech“. The study provides evidence on how the EU regulatory environment affects innovation and the uptake of emerging technologies, particularly in the areas outlined on the Strategic Technologies in Europe Platform (STEP) Platform. The E.T.PACK-F project is one of the case studies (see pages 132 to 135) and its Coordinator was interviewed by the authors of the report. The report is available here.
• 15 January 2025, Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga participates in a round table of new space Planet 25.

• 9 January 2025, PV Magazine published an article about the E.T.COMPACT project. Here is the link

• In December 2024, the E.T.PACK-F and E.T.COMPACT projects were cited in the ‘Year in Review’ article of Aerospace America. Here is the link

• 27-28 November 2024, the fourth project meeting of the E.T.PACK-F project was celebrated at Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA).

• 20th November, the kick-off of the E.T.COMPACT project at TU Dresden received wide attention. TUD’s press release highlighted the innovative propulsion technology being developed by our research team, which enables satellite operation without traditional propellants. The story was also picked up by a regional broadcaster, further spreading awareness of this groundbreaking work in satellite propulsion.
• 20th and 21th November, G. Sánchez-Arriaga attends the Space Tech Expo in Bremen and the Investor Dinner organized by the EIC and the EC Cassini Initiative.

• 5th November, PERSEI Space joins the E.T.PACK-F project as an affiliated entity of UC3M. This is a milestone that reinforces extraordinarily the capacity of the E.T.PACK Initiative to bring to the market the innovations of the E.T.PACK-F project.
• 28th and 29th October, J. Martin-Fuertes (PERSEI Space) and G. Sánchez-Arriaga (UC3M) participates in the EIC Pathfinder Space Portfolio Meeting and in the EIC Space Portfolio meeting in Brussels. The E.T.PACK-F and the E.T.COMPACT project were presented and the team members interacted with other EIC-funded project looking for synergies and collaborations.

• 8th November 2024, The E.T.PACK-F and the E.T.COMPACT projects are presented in the ESA Clean Space Days as part of the presentation “Designing, developing and testing space debris mitigation and remediation capabilities through “bottom-up” technology innovation” by Stela Tkatchova, J. Muñoz Tejeda, G. Sánchez-Arriaga, R. Taklaa, D. Giolito, J.Garot, L. Lorda, E.Giglio, and H. Virdee.

• 4th October 2024, The E.T.COMPACT project celebrates its kickoff meeting in Madrid. The team is excited to start a new EIC PAthfinder project with the goal of developing a miniauturized electrodynamic tether system and push forward the development of PVK/CIGS thin film solar cells and bare-photovoltaic tether technology.

• 15th October 2024, Professor Martin Tajmar attended the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan, presenting the latest updates on the E.T.PACK-F and E.T.COMPACT projects. In an event photo, Stela Tkatchova, the EIC Programme Manager for Space Systems & Technologies, is seen alongside Tajmar with a cathode and PV-tether sample displayed in the background.

• 1st October 2024, our team says goodbye to Prof. Enrico Lorenzini, the leader of our partner University of Padua (UNIPD), who starts a deserved retirement after more than 30 years contributing to tether technology. Besides his charming and always optimistic personality, Enrico is a “tether legend” that participated in the most important tether missions flown by NASA in the 1990s (TSS-1, TSS-1R, SEDS-I, SEDS-II) and the most important projects in Europe (BETs, E.T.PACK and E.T.PACK-F). The team will miss his vast experience on tether dynamics, orbital mechanics, and space mechanisms. He leaves at UNIPD an outstanding generation of scientists and engineers that he devotedly nurtured during so many years running tether projects. The photo below shows Enrico and his team in the Science4All 2024 together with the astronauts Franco Malerba and Umberto Guidoni that participated in the TSS-1 and TSS-1R missions, respectively. A photo that belongs to tether’s history !!

• September 2024, team members participate in the Science4All 2024 event at the University of Padova, where the E.T.PACK-F project had a strong visibility.

• 25th July 2024, after finishing the manufacturing and integration of the Engineering Qualification Model of the deorbit device of E.T.PACK-F, the testing campaign has started. The image shows the EQM ready for the vibration test.

• 8 July 2024, G. Sánchez-Arriaga is interviewed by Prensa Ibérica. See the interview here.

• 12th June 2024, X. Ézara was interviewed by La Voz de Galicia newspaper and talked about the E.T.PACK-F mission. The interview is here.

• 11th June 2024, X. Ézara, the project manager of E.T.PACK-F, was interviewed by Radio Redondela. During the interview, Ézara detailed the development process of the deorbit device and highlighted the importance of mitigating space debris. Find it here.

• 2-5 June 2024, E.T.PACK-F team members attended the Seventh International Conference on Tethers in Space in Toronto. They presented their latest progress and achievements through oral presentations during the conference.

• 29th May 2024, G. Sánchez-Arriaga participates in the round table “Space Traffic Management and Space Debris Management: A Growing Space Market and its Regulation” of the II Series of Seminar on International Space Law –Facing a New Space Era of Challengesis organized by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and The University of Leicester.

• 23th May 2024, G. Sánchez-Arriaga is interviewed by Visionary Analytics, that is developing a study commissioned by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) on ‘Innovative Practices in Legislation Around Emerging Tech’. The E.T.PACK-F project has been one of the selected projects to provide information to better understand legislative and regulatory barriers that are faced in developing and scaling up emerging technologies.

• 22th May 2024, A.del Pino and G.Sharifi presented their ongoing activity in the E.T.PACK-F project during the doctoral meeting at UC3M University. A.del Pino presented a mission analysis using the Bare-Photovoltaic tether and G.Sharifi presented the mission operational control of E.T.PACK-F project.

• 15-16 April 2024, the third project meeting of the E.T.PACK-F project was celebrated at UC3M University.

• 18th-19th March 2024, E.T.PACK-F presents a booth at the EIC Summit 2024 in Brussels and participated in one of its workshops. In the top image, from the left to the right, Ivica Cubic (E.T.PACK-F Project Manager), Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga, Elisabeth Berka, Stela Tkatchova (EIC Programme Manager for Space systems & technologies) and Samantha Salmistraro. In the left bottom image Iliana Ivanova visits E.T.PACK-F booth and in the right bottom image Stela Tkatchova and G. Sánchez-Arriaga participate in the round table “From researcher to entrepreneur – what does it take”

• 23th February 2024, J. Muñoz, M. Sanjurjo and G. Sánchez Arriaga attend the EIC T2M Venture Builder: “Towards Commercialization” and “Team Roadmap”. They share with experts our roadmap and strategy to move the results of E.T.PACK-F from the lab to the market by using PERSEI SPACE.

• 21 February 2024, A. Valmorbida, M. Sanjurjo and G. Sánchez Arriaga attend the EIC Communities | Industry CoP Community Building Workshop. Looking forward to collaborate with other team members of EIC projects !!

• 31th January 2024, E.T.PACK-F team members attend the EIC T2M Venture Building Programme. They had the opportunity to interact with an expert on the space market that provided useful feedback about the E.T.PACK Initiative and PERSE Space

• 30th January 2024, the E.T.PACK-F heartfelt thanks Alvaro Machón for his work and dedication in the E.T.PACK and E.T.PACK-F projects. Our best wishes to Alvaro in his new professional endeavour !! We also take the opportunity to welcome two new S. Salmistraro (UNIPD) and E. Berka (TUD) !!

• 29th January 2024, PERSEI shareholders, Jesus Muñoz (CEO), Gonzalo Sánchez, and Manuel Sanjurjo, presented an incubation proposal for the company to the ESA-BIC call. The result of the evaluation will be known within a few days !!

• 8 January 2024, G. Sánchez-Arriaga presents the work “The E.T.PACK-F Project: towards a flight-ready deorbit device based on electrodynamic tether technology” at the AIAA SciTech conference in Orlando.

• 8 December 2023, E.T.PACK-F and the startup PERSEI are presented in the webinar “EU-Japan: promoting innovation in the space sector”. On the initiative of the EIC Programme Manager for Space Systems, Stela Tkatchova, the EU-Japan Centre, through its Space Japan Helpdesk, and the EIC co-organized this webinar, aiming to strengthen the collaboration between the EU and Japan in the field of space industry.

• 4 December 2023, E.T.PACK appears in the report “Selected R&D&I projects in the field of engineering” by the Instituto de la Ingeniería de España. The publication summarizes 52 innovative projects with outstanding results. The document is available here.

• 29 November 2023. E.T.PACK-F is selected for the second phase EIC T2M Venture Building Programme. For the E.T.PACK Initiative, that recently founded the startup PERSEI SPACE, the participation in the second phase of the EIC T2M Venture Building Programme is a great opportunity to boost the transtition of its results from lab to market.

• 14-16 November 2023, The E.T.PACK-F project is presented at the Space Tech Expo in Bremen. The coordinator delivered the presentation” E.T.PACK-F: A Flight-Ready Deorbit Device Based on Electrodynamic Tether Technology” and several team members answered questions and explained the technology in our booth.

• The EIC Tech Report 2023 is out! The document helps inform future explorations of the EIC portfolio, mapping internal EIC data to global trends based on patents, publications, funding, and investments. Find the report here.

• 26-27 October 2023, the second project meeting of the E.T.PACK-F project was celebrated at Padova University.

• 16th October 2023, we sadly say goodbye to Sergio García, who developed his PhD thesis on the avionic system of the E.T.PACK deorbit device, and continued working as system engineer in E.T.PACK-F. His extraordinary technical and management work has been one of the pillars for the E.T.PACK Initiative. We send to Sergio our best wishes in his new professional endeavours and hope we will have the opportunity to continue our collaboration in future projects. We warmly welcome Xunqueira Ezara, who will lead the activities of SENER Aeroespacial in E.T.PACK-F in this new phase.

• 6th October 2023, A. Brunello was nominated among the finalists of the 2023 IAF Young Pioneer Award on the occasion of the 74 th International Astronautical Congress (IAC2023) held in Baku for the paper titled ”Optimal design and current control strategies of an electrodynamic tape for ISS station-keeping”.

• 28th September 2023, the E.T.PACK-F project appears in “Objetivo Planeta”, a programe of the Canal 24 of RTVE (Spanish National TV). Lorenzo Milá (presenter), Miguel Belló (Director of the Spanish Space Agency), Noelia Sánchez (ARRIBES), and G. Sánchez-Arriaga (E.T.PACK-F Coordinator) discuss about the space debris problem and its solutions. The interview is here.

• 28th September 2023, team members of the E.T.PACK Initiative founds the new company PeRSei Space. Fully dedicated to the development and commercialization of space products based on electrodynamic tether technology (hardware and software), PeRSei Space is the vehicle that will allow to transfer to the market the results of the EIC projects E.T.PACK, BMOM, and E.T.PACK-F. PeRSei Space, which is a turning point for our consortium, will allow to concentrate the Intellectual Property Rights generated in our projects in a single institution, help to attract new resources and talent, and open new possibilities in the business arena for our team.

• 26th September 2023, G. Sánchez-Arriaga participates in the round table at the Airspace Integration Week in Madrid to present the E.T.PACK-F project. Moderated by Leonardo Alberto López Marcos, Cofounder and Co-president of International Legal Center for Space Sustainability and with the participation of Tim Flohrer (Head Of Space Debris Office, ESA), Diego Escobar. Technical Director of STM & SST at GMV, Travis Blake (Program Officer, Space Traffic Coordination, NASA) and Gonzalo Sánchez Arriaga, the round table discussed Space Debris Management for a Sustainable use of Spa

• 7th September 2023, G. Polato presented a paper entitled ” Deployment profile analysis for tethered deorbiting technologies” at the XXVII AIDAA International Congress in Padova, Italy. Find it here

• 6th September 2023, G. Anese presented a paper entitled ” Electro-thermal dynamic simulations and results of a deorbiting tethered system” at the XXVII AIDAA International Congress in Padova, Italy. Find it here.

• 28th July 2023, We sadly say goodbye to the team members Lorenzo Tarabini (SENER) and Christian Drobny (TUD), who contributed extraordinarily to the E.T.PACK Initiative through several projects (E.T.PACK, E.T.PACK-F, BMOM, Pro-BPT) and are starting new challenges in their professional careers. Lorenzo’s leadership and vast knowledge on system engineer and product development have been one of the foundations of the E.T.PACK Initiaitive. Thanks to the wonderful work of Christian with the C12A7:e- hollow cathode during his PhD Thesis, the E.T.PACK-F project is now in conditions to prepare an autonomous deorbit device satisfying all the stric requirements on mass, volume, and power. The E.T.PACK Team heartfelt wish both of you all the best for your next professional endeavors and hope new opportunities will appear soon to continue our collaboration.

• 30th June 2023, G. Sánchez-Arriaga presents the E.T.PACK and BMOM projects at the 1st EIC Space Portfolio Meeting at EISMEA (Brussels). In this meeting, EIC space beneficiaries from Pathfinder, Transition, and Accelerator presented their projects, and the EIC space Programme Manager, Stela Tkatchova, steered the discussion among the beneficiaries and the EIC space experts to provide insights into the emerging trends in the European space industry. Propulsion.

• 29th June 2023, G. Sánchez-Arriaga presents the E.T.PACK-F project at the ESA Workshop on Innovative Propulsion (Space Tether Topic). He also participated in the discussion about tether roadmap and the preparation of a white paper on the technology.

• 15-17th June 2023, Lorenzo Tarabini made a presentation titled ”Addressing Space Sustainability with Autonomous Electrodynamic Tether Deorbit Device” during the webinar meeting named Global Meet on Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering (GMAERO2023).

• The E.T.PACK team heartfelt thanks to Sofia Orte for her work and dedication in the E.T.PACK and E.T.PACK-F projects. Her contribution to the system engineering activities of our deorbit device, with emphasis on Model-Based System Engineering, was the glue for our interdisciplinary projects. We wish Sofia every success in her new position !!

• 13th June 2023, Lorenzo Tarabini and G. Sánchez Arriaga celebrate a meeting with JAXA and the Japanese company Bull to discuss about electrodynamic tether development and how to open a new market related to space debris and deorbit technologies.

• 12th June 2023, The E.T.PACK team member Sergio Garcia defended successfully his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Avionic System of a Deorbit Kit Based on Electrodynamic Tethers“. We wish you a wonderful future!

• 7th June, 2023, G. Sánchez Arriaga presents the E.T.PACK-F project at South Summit. With the participation of more than 25,000 startups from more than 120 countries, South Summit in an innovation platform to put in contact startup and investors and focused on business opportunities.

• 31th May 2023, A.del Pino, S.Garcia, and G.Sharifi presented their ongoing activity in the E.T.PACK-F project during the doctoral meeting at UC3M University. A.del Pino presented a mission analysis using the Bare-Photovoltaic tether, S.Garcia explain about the avionic system of the De-orbit device, and G.Sharifi presented the mission operational control of E.T.PACK-F project.

• In May 2023 the E.T.PACK-F Team celebrates the 30th anniversary of the seminal article that introduced the bare tether concept “Bare Wire Anodes for Electrodynamic Tether” by three Spanish Aerospace Egineers: Profs. J. Sanmartín, M. Martinez-Sánchez and E. Ahedo. The AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power gives free access to the article during May 2023 at this link. The image below show a sample of bare tether used in the E.T.PACK-F project.

• 17th May 2023, Enrico Lorenzini chaired a Session on “Building a Cleaner Space” at the Space Meetings Veneto held in Venice on 15-17/05/2023 with the participation of Lorenzo Tarabini from Sener and Stella Tkatchova from the EIC. The conference had more than 1000 participants. Carlo Bettanini and Giacomo Colombatti, also from the E.T.PACK UNIPD, were among the conference organizers. Find it here.

• 12th May 2023, Project Coordinator visited Gerardo Diego school in Leganes. He talked with the kids about the space debris problem and the tether solution. In the image, he shows tether deployment under the watchful eye of a future aerospace engineer, who tenderly hugs the E.T.PACK mascot.

• 21th April 2023, Martin Tajmar published a paper regarding the feasibility study of the Bare-Photovoltaic-Tether Concept. The bare-photovoltaic-tether (BPT) concept combines the bare tether electron collection with a tether segment, coated with thin film Copper Indium Gallium Selenide solar cells to harvest additional power for the cathodic contact, potentially enabling propellant-less operation. Find it here.
• 18th April 2023, A. Brunello had a presentation entitled ”Space debris mitigation using E.T.PACK: a compact electrodynamic tether system for deorbiting” at the COSPAR conference at the Technological University of Singapore.
• 17th April 2023, A. del Pino, who is developing his Ph.D. in the framework of E.T.PACK, attends the International Congress of Ph.D. Students in Aerospace Science and Engineering in Bologna, Italy.

• 13th-15th April 2023, The first project meeting of the E.T.PACK-F project was celebrated at the SENER premises.

• 23th March 2023, Lorenzo Tarabini attended the Oficina de Infiltrados podcast. In that episode, he talked about space debris and the E.T.PACK Initiative as an effective solution for this problem. Find it here.
• 2nd February 2023, Lorenzo Tarabini presents the E.T.PACK Initiative in Comando Actualidad, a programme of the Spanish national Television TVE. Find the interview here.
• 26th January 2023, G. Sanchez-Arriaga attends the Space Info Days of the EIC. He pitches a 3-minute presentation about the E.T.PACK Initiative and roadmap in relation with next EIC calls.
• 24th January 2023, Lorenzo Tarabini and G. Sánchez Arriaga attend the webinar “Licensing as Exit Strategy for EIC Beneficiaries”.
• 19th January 2023, UC3M, TUD, SENER Aeroespacial and UNIPD presents the Status of the E.T.PACK Initiative (E.T.PACK, E.T.PACK-F, and BMOM projects) at ESA/ESTEC.
• 19th January 2023, UC3M, TUD, SENER Aeroespacial and UNIPD, presents at ESA/ESTEC the results of the Bare-Photovoltaic Tether Project in the Final Meeting.
• 7th-8th December 2022, Lorenzo Tarabini presents the E.T.PACK and the E.T.PACK-F Projects at the EIC Summit 2022. In the image, Stela Tkatchova (EIC Programme Manager for space systems and technologies, left ), Elisa Failla (Project Officer, center), and Lorenzo Tarabini (Leader of the E.T.PACK and the E.T.PACK-F projects at SENER Aeroespacial, right).

• 30th November. The E.T.PACK ends succesfully and the goal of developing a 12U deorbit device with TRL4 has been accomplished. Bye bye E.T.PACK and welcomed E.T.PACK-F ! Next challenge: A Ready-to-Fly deorbit device (TRL 8).

• 30th November: The E.T.PACK team member Sadaf Shahsavani defended successfully her PhD thesis entitled “Modelling and Mission Analysis of Low Work-Function Tethers. Congratulations Sadaf !!!

• 24th and 25th November: E.T.PACK Team celebrates the Final Meeting of the E.T.PACK Project in Madrid.

• 21th November: The E.T.PACK team member Luca chiabó defended successfully his PhD thesis entitled “Emissive Langmuir Probe Theory with Application to Low Work Function Electrodynamic Tethers“. Congratulations Luca !!!

• 5th Nov 2022: Lorenzo Tarabini (SENER) and Gonzalo Sánchez Arriaga (UC3M) are interviewed on the Spanish Television NEOX for the program Hazte Eco. Find the interview here.

• 5th Oct 2022: The very 1st EUeic Podcast with an EIC Programme Manager and 2 members of the E.T.PACK team to discuss how innovation can tackle the issue of space debris. Listen now.

• 30th Sep 2022: The project E.T.PACK is presented to the public at the event Science for All organized by the University of Padova on the European Researchers’ Night.

• 27th Sep 2022: Chiabò (UC3M) presents the E.T.PACK project in an episode of the Bola de Cristal Podcast.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4k5XrkCBQ0X7WCWhix7iyP?si=5aeeefd71c6940cf

• List of prizes and awards received by the E.T.PACK team at UNIPD in the last three years:
  – 22th Sep 2022: Alice Brunello finalist at the International Astronautical Congress for the Luigi G. Napolitano Prize, Paris.
  – 9th Feb 2021: Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Space Debris to Giulia Sarego, Amsterdam.
  – 28th Feb 2020: Best Paper Award at the Conference Aerospace Europe Conference to Andrea Valmorbida, Bordeaux.

• 3rd-15th Sep 2022: “800 Years of Space in Padova”, a public exhibit at the University of Padua where the E.T.PACK project is presented.

• E.T.PACK Team celebrates the 9th Project Meeting at TUD in Dresden, June 9th-10th, 2022.

• June 7th, 2022: The E.T.PACK project is presented in the 65th Session of COPUOS 2022 at United Nations headquarter in Vienna. This @EUeic project is developing a deorbit device based on electrodynamic tether technology.

• May 17th, 2022: The European Innovation Council supports E.T. PACK-Fly, a project to mitigate space debris, published by UC3M. Find out more here.

• The E.T.PACK team heartfelt thank Dr. Giulia Sarego for her work in the project and wish her all every success in her new position. Keep us in touch Giulia !!

• April 27th, 2022, E.T.PACK Coordinator is invited to EIC-EUSPA Workshop to deliver a talk about the project. Find out more on Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook.

• UC3M team members with the E.T.PACK’s mascot prepared by Dr. Giulia Sarego. We sincerely thank Giulia for this wonderful gift!! 

• March 4th, 2022, Lorenzo Tarabini, System Engineer at SENER Aeroespacial is interviewed in Spanish broadcasters TVE1. Find the interview here.

• The #EUeic spoke with the Coordinator of the E.T.PACK project. Find here the video.

• January 31st, 2022, E.T.PACK Coordinator is interviewed in the article ” El basurero espacial” , published in the newspaper “HERALDO”. Find the article here.

• January 19th, 2022, E.T.PACK Coordinator is interviewed in the article ” Un ‘ancla’ para acabar con la basura espacial” , published in the newspaper “EL CORREO”. Find the article here.

• December 20th, 2021: E.T.PACK group in the University of Padova is interviewed by the Italian Newspaper “Il Messaggero. Find the article here.

• December 13-16th 2021, Lorenzo Tarabini, System Engineer at SENER Aeroespacial, and Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga, professor at UC3M and Coordinator of the E.T.PACK project, presented the workshop “Propellant-less Orbital Mobility Device” in the World Satellite Business Week, the annual rendez-vous for every leader from the global satellite connectivity and information business, held in Paris. Find the brochure of the workshop here.

• December 15th, 2021: G. Sánchez-Arriaga presents E.T.PACK in the workshop “B2B PTE Distrupte” promoted by the Plataforma Tecnológica Española de Tecnologías Disruptivas.

• December 1st, 2021: Article in Scientific America about “Space tethers demonstrate deorbit capability”, gives some news on the E.T.PACK project. Find out more here.

• November 30th, 2021: G. Sánchez-Arriaga presents the talk “State of the art of electrodynamic tether technology” for Los Alamos National Laboratory.

• November 29th, 2021, E.T.PACK Coordinator is interviewed in the article ” El ingenio español propulsa la sostenibilidad en una economía espacial en auge” , published in the newspaper “ABC economía”. Find the article here.

• October 29th, 2021, European Innovation Council (EIC) published an article about the E.T.PACK: Innovative technology has the potential to revolutionize the space debris challenge. Find the article here. Mercedes Ruiz (SENER) and Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga (E.T.PACK coordinator) presented the E.T.PACK project at the  European Innovation Council Summit on 24-25 November 2021. We thank the EIC for giving us the opportunity to present our project and the effort made organizing the event. Find the presentation here.

• October 26th, 2021, SENER Aeroespacial and Rocket Factory Augsburg sign a launch agreement for E.T.PACK’s deorbit device. Find more about it here. 

• September 30th, 2021, Lorenzo Tarabini and Sergio García González explain the ecological challenge in space and the E.T.PACK project in Radio Nacional de España. Find the interview here.

• September 24th the UNIPD-CISAS “Giuseppe Colombo” research center introduces the E.T.PACK project in the Public Event at the University of Padova called “VenetoNight”: the night of researchers.  Find the video here.

• E.T.PACK Team celebrates the 8th Project Meeting at UniPD in Padua, September 23th-24th, 2021.

• August 30th, 2021, E.T.PACK Coordinator is interviewed in the programme Siglo 21, Radio 3. Find the interview here.

• May 15th, 2021, E.T.PACK Coordinator is interviewed in the article ” Basura espacial: la guerra de satélites satura las órbitas” , published in the daily newspaper “ABC”. Find the article here.

• April 21st, 2021, Lorenzo Tarabini explains the E.T.PACK project in Telediario 1, the news programme of the Spanish National Television (TVE). Find the video here.

• April 14th, 2021, E.T.PACK Coordinator appears in the programme El Gallo que no Cesa of Radio Nacional de España. Find the audio here. 

• April 9th, 2021, E.T.Pack project appears in the daily newspaper “El País”. Features of the project, including its potential impact and the development plan of the deorbit device, are emphasized. Find the news link here.

• March 17th, 2021, E.T.PACK Coordinator appears at the News of the Spanish TV Channel La Sexta.

• March 9th, 2021, An interview with G. Sánchez-Arriaga (UC3M) and Lorenzo Tarabini (SENER) about the E.T.PACK project in “La Tarde”, a Radio Programme of Cadena COPE (Spanish Radio Station). Find the interview here.

• February 23th, 2021, E.T.PACK Coordinator has been interviewed in the Spanish radio show “Hoy por Hoy Madrid” from Cadena Ser. The interview is available at the link (minute 47 of the show).

• Aerospace PhD-Days: The first PhD day of European students in Aerospace Engineering was organized by AIDAA, the Italian Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics on 15th-17th February 2021. After a century from the foundation, AIDAA wished to celebrate its centennial by collecting together the PhD students in Aerospace engineering from Universities and research centers of Europe, for the first time. The PhD students had the possibilities to share their activities to all the colleague in Europe and, thus, to create a net of the European young researchers. PhD students from UC3M attended the meeting to present “Low work-Function Tethers for Deorbiting Satellite at End-of-Life ”. Find the presentation here [3:24:30-3:41:10].

• After finishing the design and procurement phases, SENER has started today the lab activities on the avionic system of the deorbit kit.

• E.T.PACK Team celebrates the sixth Project Meeting online, January 13th-14th, 2021.

• E.T.PACK Team celebrates the fifth Project Meeting online, September 21st-22nd, 2020.

• E.T.PACK Team celebrates the fourth Project Meeting online, June 11th-12th, 2020.

• Online Seminar about “Orbital Debris and its Mitigation” was given to the students of the Galilelian School of Superior Studies (SGSS) by Enrico Lorenzini from University of Padova (UniPD) on 29 April 2020.

• Several members of E.T.PACK participated in an Innovation Opportunity Workshop organized by experts of the FET project Briefing. The workshop allowed identifying and analyzing the priority aspects to develop the long-term goals and roadmap of E.T.PACK. The consortium thanks the Briefing‘s team for this kind opportunity.

• As part of the research and innovation community, the E.T.PACK team is committed with the important challenge of contributing to the global efforts against Coronavirus. We encourage to visit the website of the research and innovation coronavirus response of the European Commission.

• E.T.Pack partner at Dresden University of Technology successfully ran the C12A7 hollow cathode thruster for the first time.

• The following E.T.Pack paper received the Best Paper Award in the Space Session of the conference:
  G. Sarego, L. Olivieri, A. Valmorbida, A. Brunello, E. C. Lorenzini, L. Tarabini Castellani, E. Urgoiti, A. Ortega, G. Borderes-Motta and G. Sánchez-Arriaga, “Deployment Requirements for Deorbiting Electrodynamic Tether Technology”, Presented at the Aerospace Europe Conference AEC2020 – Clean Sky, 25-28 February 2020, Bordeaux, France.

• The Project Coordinator visited Gerardo Diego school in Leganes. Using several experiments and games he explained to 5-years old kids the space debris problem and the tether solution.

• E.T.PACK Team celebrates the third Project Meeting in SENER Madrid, January 23th-24th,2020.

• November 25, 2019, An interview with G. Sánchez-Arriaga (UC3M) and Lorenzo Tarabini (SENER) about the E.T.PACK project in “A Golpe de Bit”, a Radio Programme in Radio Exterior de España. Find the interview at here.

• November 14, 2019, An interview with G. Sánchez-Arriaga (UC3M) and Lorenzo Tarabini (SENER) about the E.T.PACK project in “Radar 3.0”, a Radio Programme in Radio Nacional de España.

• November 12 and 14, 2019, E.T.PACK Exposition in “Semana de la Ciencia de Madrid” at Rey Pastor Building at  UC3M: The exposition includes 5 poster, a booth, a video, one experiment to play with the Lorentz force and some hardware elements like an electrodynamic tether.

• November 4, 2019: Article in Scientific America  about TEPCE, a challenging mission by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, mentions the E.T.PACK project, find out more here.

• E.T.PACK Team celebrates the second Project Meeting in IKTS Fraunhofer, September 26th-27th,2019.

• The VenetoNight: Researcher’s Night took place at the University of Padova (UniPD) and other universities in the region on September 27th, 2019. The event goes on for a full day till late evening in the historical courtyard of the universities with stands from different departments of UniPD. The event has a wide attendance from the general public; Padova is an old University town with 62000 students. The video of E.T.PACK was projected continually on TV screens at the stand of UniPD–CISAS. 

• UC3M hosts the International Conference on Tethers in Space (TiS 2019 12-14 June). This conference is a great opportunity for sharing the last advances in tether technology and bring together space tether community, including researchers, space agencies and industry. Visit the website of the conference at http://eventos.uc3m.es/go/TiS2019.

• Pedro Duque, Spanish Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Marina Grossi, daughter of one of the fathers of the electrodynamic tether concept Mario Grossi, and Juan Jose Vaquero, UC3M Vice Chancellor of Science Policy, joined the Conference Dinner of the International Conference on tethers in Space hosted by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid from 12-14 June, 2019.

• E.T.PACK team has attended the EIC Pathfinder Event that took place on 19 June in Bucharest and is co-organised by the European Commission and the Romanian Presidency as part of the Innovative Enterprise Week series of events.