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 stars, and supernovae.
Lorraine Hanlon, co-founder at Paramater, said: “We are delighted to have secured this key contract from ESA and our aim is to develop software tools that will provide additional capability for scientists and citizens to make use of this unique data set.”
