Blood-test firm wins €1m space station contract

A CORK company is boldly going where no other company has gone before after it won a €1 million contract to develop a new blood-testing device for astronauts onboard the International Space Station.

The European Space Agency (ESA) needs to get instant laboratory-grade results for a myriad of health conditions, both on the space station and on human spaceflight missions.

It selected Radisens Diagnostics to add a thyroid test to a point-of-care device currently in development at its facility in Bishopstown.