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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Twinkle Project Consultancy

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£80k
Awarded5 Feb 2016
Published15 Jan 2016
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

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£80ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

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The brief

The tender is to run aspects of the business development for the Twinkle Space Mission; the work is funded via UCL by a European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept (PoC) grant “ExoData”.

The core concept of ExoData is to implement a business model that places astrophysics space research on a more commercial footing.

We will generate income from the sale of telescope data to make scientific missions self-funding and potentially profit making.

The exemplar is an exoplanet characterisation mission “Twinkle which exploits the smaller, faster, cheaper capacity of the EU (in particular UK) space industry to radically change the way space-borne astrophysics is conducted.

Key requirements

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The core concept of ExoData is

The core concept of ExoData is to implement a business model that places astrophysics space research on a more commercial footing.

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OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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