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L'idée d'un retour aux missions lunaires suscite intérêt et excitation à travers le monde. Voici sept startups du Newspace qui pourraient jouer un rôle crucial dans les prochaines odyssées spatiales.

Air & Cosmos

Après plusieurs succès commerciaux l’an passé, la jeune pousse francilienne décroche un contrat avec l’agence spatiale française, confirmant la fiabilité et l’innovation de ses produits.

ThrustMe, a pioneering leader in advanced in-orbit propulsion systems, proudly announces a transformative off-the-shelf contract with the French Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES). This purchase agreement is a testimony of the rapidly changing aerospace sector, where the lines between the legacy and new space are blurring. Long-standing actors such as CNES can benefit from complete and reliable industrial and standardized products for their space missions to accelerate development times and reduce costs.

Norsk Romsenter - Norwegian Space Agency

On Friday 26 January 2024 at 19:15, the Norwegian national satellite NorSat-TD ignited its engine to ascend to a higher orbit. "This was the very first time a Norwegian national satellite was steered into space to raise its orbit and perform what is known as orbit maintenance," says Tyler Jones, Senior Advisor at the Norwegian Space Centre.

NorSat-TD was launched on 15 April 2023 and entered low Earth orbit at an altitude of approximately 500 kilometres.  However, since NorSat-TD was launched, high solar activity has increased the size of the Earth's atmosphere, adding more drag to any spacecraft in orbit. "As a result, NorSat-TD has lost about 20 kilometres of altitude. It therefore needed to be raised to get back into the right orbit," says Jones.

This award recognises ThrustMe's achievements in space propulsion, specifically highlighting the NPT30-I2, the first in-space demonstration of an iodine-fueled electric propulsion system. Today, the NPT30-I2 is under batch production at the ThrustMe manufacturing centre and delivered to customers all over the world!

Iodine, first recognised as a potential alternative to xenon more than two decades ago, has been the subject of several scientific studies. With ThrustMe's triumphant flight into orbit, iodine electric propulsion has gone from a mere theoretical possibility to a tangible and revolutionary reality.

Air & Cosmos

Nous avons échangé avec Ane Aanesland, cofondatrice et présidente de la start-up ThrustMe, mais également ambassadrice france 2030, au sujet des investissements d’avenir français dans le secteur spatial.