NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have recently announced a collaboration on a project called Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA). He’s something arguably much more important – a businessman who saw an opportunity for Ireland to get into the space race. Fancying a move to Ireland’s tech-rich environment in 2012, Simonenko and O’Leary teamed up to establish a base in Blanchardstown. We pulled together some funding, some of which came from Enterprise Ireland, and started to develop that tech,” O’Leary explains. Which I took to be a good sign.”InnaLabs got the contracts with ESA that will now see its IMUs made in Blanchardstown, fitted to a space probe, and fired at the heavens.

Source: The Irish Times October 08, 2020 04:07 UTC