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Entrepreneurship for Physicists
and Engineers at IAC 2016
From September 26–30, 2016, Mexico hosted the 67th edition of
the International Astronautical Congress. Its motto was “Making
space accessible and affordable to all countries.”
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ore than 3,000 professionals from in doing space exploration activities,” stated
national space agencies around the Veronica La Regina, RHEA Group’s Strategy and
world, including ESA, Roscosmos, Business Development Officer and organizer of
NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, the China this side event.
National Space Agency, and the Indian Space The discussion, moderated by David Parker, ESA
Research Organisation (ISRO), shared their Director of Human Space Flight and Robotics,
projects and lessons learned from their historical featured prominent speakers such as Fritz
activities during the most important astronautical Merkle, member of the management board from
conference in the world. OHB; Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, cosmonaut from
For the event, ESA organized the workshop the Romanian Space Agency; Sam Scimemi,
“ESA Commercial Partnership Initiatives for director of the International Space Station from
Space Exploration,” aimed at physicists and NASA headquarters; Rodrigo da Costa, head
engineers from emerging and experienced of business development-space exploration at
space nations. The workshop discussed the Airbus DS; Mauro Ricci, ICE Cubes manager
entrepreneurship potential of the space industry from Space Applications Services; Carolina
and presented the current process of innovation Fernandez from Central American Association
and commercialization of space-related products for Aeronautics and Space (ACAE); and Sergio
and services. Camacho-Lara,
“The representatives from the emerging countries Regional Education Center of Science & Space
strongly welcomed the role of private industries Technology for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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