University College Dublin spin-out Paramater Space wins ESA contract to design 3D map of the Milky Way.
Paramater Space, a spin-out of University College Dublin, has secured €800,000 ($905,000) from the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a three dimensional map of our galaxy.
The three year project will use data from ESA’s Gaia satellite to help the Ireland-based firm, launched in 2014, map out the Milky Way. Aside from creating four new jobs at the firm, Paramater will assist the €700m Gaia mission in measuring the positions of 1 billion stars and discover orbiting planets, other…
