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A new report, Technological Breakthroughs for Scientific
Progress (TECHBREAK), has been published today by the European Science
Foundation.
The European Science Foundation (ESF) was contacted at the
end of 2009 to conduct a foresight activity for the European Space Agency
(ESA), addressing the matter of technological breakthroughs for space
originating in the non-space sector. A “Forward Look” project jointly funded by
ESA and ESF and called ‘TECHBREAK’ was initiated as a result. Its goals were to
forecast the development of such breakthrough technologies to enable novel
space missions in the 2030-2050 timeframe and to identify related partnerships
through synergies with non-space specialists.