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INNOspace Masters 2024
INNOspace Masters 2024
Space up your Life –
Innovations for a smarter
Earth and Space
Innovations for a smarter
Earth and Space
The best of the best: watch the 2024 highlights
In case you missed it or just can’t get enough: Enjoy the highlight video from our Final Event on 9 October in Berlin. Also check out our photo gallery.
Everything at a glance: the INNOspace Masters 2024 brochure
24 pages of innovation: In the INNOspace Masters 2024 brochure you will find all winners of the six challenges, the latest facts and figures on the competition, background information on the INNOspace initiative and much more.
Overall Winner 2024
The Overall Winner of the INNOspace Masters 2024 has been announced:
Hubble Network – Connecting Bluetooth to Space
Also the winner of the Mercedes-Benz car2space Challenge.
Find all details here.
Congratulations!
Challenges Winners 2024
Here they are: the winners of this year’s six challenges. Congratulations to all of you!
German Space Agency at DLR Challenge:
StellarHeal – Wound healing in Space and on Earth
Find all details here.
Mercedes-Benz car2space Challenge:
Hubble Network – Connecting Bluetooth to Space
Find all details here.
ESA BA Challenge:
Hula Earth – Biodiversity Monitoring with Satellites and IoT Sensors
Find all details here.
OHB Challenge:
Spherical – High-performance Satellite Power Systems Powered by Agile Semi conductor Design
Find all details here.
Airbus Challenge:
eClypse – Intrusion Detection for Space
Find all details here.
ESA BIC Challenge:
Helios LITE – A first Thruster Model basing on the two-stage Ionization Concept of Helios
Find all details here.
Final Event programme now online
Here it is: the detailed programme of our INNOspace Masters Final Event “Space up your Life – Thinking the future to act smart now”! We look forward to welcoming you on 9 October 2024 at the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Not registered yet? Do it now and join us for a full day of innovation, inspiration and networking as we bring together space technology leaders, industry professionals and space enthusiasts.
Meet the Top 3 of the Mercedes-Benz car2space Challenge 2024
Here are the winners of the Mercedes-Benz car2space Challenge 2024 “Space up your Drive” (in no specific order):
Managing supply chain and infrastructure with EO data (Matt Wood): With its satellite constellation, BlackSky can provide a high-frequency Earth observation monitoring solution for rapid decision making. The Site Monitoring solution is a fully managed, customisable service for monitoring facilities, production sites, shipping terminals or other locations for thematic indicators of Pattern of Life activity. It works without the need for satellite expertise, collection deck management or satellite imagery analysis.
Ubiquitous broadband connectivity on the move (Anela Boese): STELLAR provides continuous connectivity for mobility solutions through a software solution that facilitates and actively enforces fast, seamless and network agnostic switching to the best available network at any time, be it satellite, cellular or Wi-Fi, or aggregating multiple networks simultaneously to maximise throughput.
Connecting Bluetooth to Space (Alex Haro): This constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites and a novel communication array allows any Bluetooth chip to communicate directly with their satellites. This level of connectivity has the power to revolutionise many different industries, including agriculture, logistics, mobility and defence.
Meet the winners and learn more about their exciting innovations at the Final Event in Berlin.
Meet the Top 3 of the Airbus Challenge 2024
Here are the winners of the Airbus Challenge 2024 “Boosting responsible Commercialisation of Space” (in no specific order):
eClypse – Intrusion Detection for Space (Marc Kneppers): This hardware-based intrusion detection module for satellites uses no processing or storage resources on the satellite and cannot be tampered with by an adversary. It is an emerging and important technology for future space missions.
Miura Nexus – Connecting Efficiency with Physics Forecasting (Jordi Gómez Silla): This physics-based machine learning technology helps simulation engineers make informed decisions. It accelerates design exploration and improves process design in the aerospace sector.
Very high Resolution from Low-Cost-Satellite (Oren Berger, Ido Priel): This innovative imaging technology enables very high resolution (10cm) to be achieved from low-cost satellites in low Earth orbit. It has the potential to disrupt the entire Earth observation market and enable a wide range of new applications.
Meet the winners and learn more about their exciting innovations at the Final Event in Berlin.
Meet the Top 3 of the OHB Challenge 2024
Here are the winners of the OHB Challenge 2024 “Shape Space for a better Future” (in no specific order):
EcoOrbit – Sustainable Satellite Solutions (Hiroshi Doyu): This technology directly enhances the capabilities of the space sector, particularly for Earth observation satellites used to monitor natural disasters. By compressing AI models, NINJALabo enables local data processing through AI-algorithms on satellites. This can vastly reduce the amount of data that is transmitted back to Earth for analysis. Executing Edge AI locally on satellites would process data onboard, reducing latency of communication and speed up decision-making.
Spherical – High-performance Satellite Power Systems Powered by Agile Semiconductor Design (Thomas Campbell Parry): The systems are more than five times smaller, affordable, and mass-producible compared to traditional power systems, with added benefits of being software configurable and radiation-hardened for varying orbital environments.
RegOne – A lunar regolith transportation system (Walter Gemassmer, Johann Flach, Malte Eckermann): A team of students at the RWTH Aachen designed this transportation system with the vision to reliably transport the locally available resource regolith in a variety of lunar terrains and conditions. It is vibration-based, modular and has no moving parts to minimise long-term wear.
Meet the winners and learn more about their exciting innovations at the Final Event in Berlin.
Meet the Top 3 of the DLR Challenge 2024
Here are the winners of the DLR Challenge 2024 “Applied Research for Disruptive Innovation” (in no specific order):
VibraVoid – Vibration Avoidance with Acoustic Black Holes (Nikolai Kleinfeller): This innovative mechanical solution reduces vibration and shock in spacecraft without adding mass. The benefits compared to conventional measures are a reduction in vibration of -20 dB, less weight and less assembly space.
StellarHeal – Innovative wound care for wound healing in space (Dr. Dieter Groneberg, Bastian Christ): Wound healing in space is affected by radiation and microgravity. This solution offers faster recovery, reduced risk of infection and resource efficiency. It also works on chronic wounds here on Earth.
AGREE – Avoiding Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Rare Earth Element production by transferring space resource technology to Earth (Dr. Georg Pöhle): The solution is called ROXY and offers unique features: high current efficiency, no greenhouse gas emissions and virtually no consumables.
Meet the winners and learn more about their exciting innovations at the Final Event in Berlin.
Meet the Top 3 of the ESA BA Challenge 2024
Here are the winners of the ESA BA Challenge 2024 “Space for every Industry” (in no specific order):
Hula Earth – Biodiversity Monitoring with Satellites and IoT Sensors (Florian Geiser): The most accurate and scalable biodiversity data platform to enable companies to accurately quantify the impact of their business activities in light of forthcoming EU disclosing regulations. To obtain this data, Hula Earth installing a real-time biodiversity sensor network and fuse it with insights obtained from satellite imagery.
Panda Insight – VitalFusion (Maximilian Weiss): The service provider that links health and climate data to reduce absenteeism, behavioural diseases and health problems caused by climate change. Panda Insight enables digital health solutions in all these cases, turning data into tailored recommendations that could be offered by occupational health providers as new features on your phone.
TALOS GmbH – Harnessing Animals’ Intelligence from Space (Gregor Langer): A new technology solution to derive commercial benefits from the advanced senses and instincts of animals — expressed through their movements and behaviours — to optimise, for example, weather services, agricultural research or biodiversity protection. The solution works with a constellation of six cubesats in orbit, the smallest IoT tags on animals and low infrastructure costs.
Meet the winners and learn more about their exciting innovations at the Final Event in Berlin.
Meet the Top 3 of the ESA BIC Challenge 2024
Here are the winners of the ESA BIC Challenge 2024 “Join the New Space Economy” (in no specific order):
Helios LITE (Dr Danny Kirmse): An initial electric thruster model based on the two-stage ionisation concept of Helios to achieve the next step in interplanetary transportation. The thruster uses a capacitive discharge as the pre-stage and an inductive discharge as the main stage to ionise a neutral fuel gas under higher pressure conditions.
QuSSat (Gabriel Müller, Gina Kleinsteinberg, Jan-Niclas Kirsten-Siemß, Christian Struckmann): A new interface for quantum sensors to dramatically reduce their development time and cost. The interface is so easy to use that users don’t need to learn anything about quantum mechanics to benefit from the advantages of quantum sensor technology in space missions.
Agrario Energy (Alexander von Breitenbach): The first tendering platform for renewable energy site assessment based on satellite data and matching with potential implementation partners. The platform helps find the best project developer for any landowner looking to lease land for renewable energy projects – click by click through an app and as easy as online car rental.
Meet the winners and learn more about their exciting innovations at the Final Event in Berlin.
Registration for the Final Event is open!
We invite you to our final event on 9 October 2024 in Berlin. Meet the top 3 winners of all six challenges and be there when this year’s overall winner is announced. You can also look forward to an exciting social programme. Themed “Space up your Life – Thinking the future to act smart now”, the event brings together leading space experts, industry professionals, space enthusiasts and political guests. Keynotes and expert panels will provide ample opportunity for networking and discussion among conference delegates.
This year, for the first time, our final event will take place at the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Register NOW: https://registration.dlr-pt.de/en/innospace-masters-final-event-2024/registration/
Choosing the Overall Winner 2024 in Bonn
The best idea out of 199 submissions from 24 countries – the INNOspace Masters Overall Winner 2024 – is set! Out of 18 TOP3 winning teams 16 made the journey to Bonn in person last week and received live coaching sessions to pitch for this year’s overall winner. You will find out which idea stood out this year when we announce it on 9 October at our final event in Berlin. Until then, all partners and the INNOspace Masters team would like to thank this year’s participants for their innovative ideas!
Over the next weeks we will introduce the Top 3 of every challenge.
The TOP 3 selection is completed
The decision has been made: This year’s Top 3 in all six challenges have been decided. The selection process is complete and the finalists will be notified shortly.
The next step will be the start of the joint journey between each partner and their finalists with an on-site coaching session in Bonn. On the following day, the TOP 3 of all Challenges will pitch to a joint jury with representatives of all partners to determine the most promising submission of the entire INNOspace Masters 2024 – to find the team that will be crowned as the Overall Winner. This will take place on the 8th and 9th of July in Bonn.
Evaluation Top 8
Our juries have chosen the top 8 in five of the six competition challenges. If you are one of them, you have already received a congratulatory email with further details.
Participants of the Mercedes-Benz car2space Challenge will be informed at the beginning of next week.
If you did not get a positive answer this year – the INNOspace Masters 2025 will be your next chance!
The next step is the online pitch to select the top 3 in each challenge. The dates are as follows
- 20 June: ESA BA Challenge
- 20 June: OHB Challenge
- 21 June: ESA BIC Challenge
- 26 June: DLR Challenge
- 27 June: Airbus Challenge
The top 8 will receive a second email shortly with the exact time slot along with a personalised invitation and further instructions for their online pitch. All winners will be invited to the overall evaluation meeting in Bonn on 8-9 July.
If you have any questions, please contact INNOspace-Masters@iqib.de
Submission closed – Next steps
Submission for the 2024 round of the INNOspace Masters competition is closed.
What happens next?
Our judges will select the TOP 8 for each challenge by 14 June. And the TOP 3 by 30 June. The final decision will be made on 8 and 9 July: Who is the Overall Winner 2024?
All winners will be announced at the final event in Berlin on 9 October. Save the date!
Facts & Figures
For this year’s round of the INNOspace Masters competition we have received 199 ideas from 445 participants from 24 countries, including, for the first time, Brazil, Australia, Morocco and Bulgaria.
