Enbio in €500k deal with ESA for ‘sunscreen’ to protect satellites in space

Irish surface technology company Enbio has signed a €500,000 contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to produce a “sunscreen” to protect satellites as they travel in space.

NovaUCD-based Enbio’s unique technology platform, CoBlast, produces unique “black” surfaces, that it will then deploy on critical internal and external surfaces of satellites.

These “Solarblacks” combine extreme thermal and ultra-violet radiation stability, robustness and electrical conductivity characteristics. This unique surface will give ESA satellites and their costly payloads robust protection against solar radiation in space.