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  1. Siddhartha Yash Kovid, Kevin Grüning and Marcin Orzechowski of Team PRISM stand in the middle of a stage in front of a satellite backdrop, with the award certificate in the centre. Two ESA FLPP staff in purple ESA polos stand at the edges.
    Photo credit: ESA

    14 October 2026Award

    PRISM receives a FIRST! Simulation & Intelligence award

    At the ESA FLPP Autumn Session in Paris on 14 October 2026, PRISM received a FIRST! Simulation & Intelligence award, presented by Pier Resta, Head of FLPP.

  2. Team PRISM on stage at the Hessen Ideen awards, holding the KI-Sonderpreis certificate, with the organisers.

    2026Award

    PRISM wins the AI special prize at Hessen Ideen

    Team PRISM, from Justus Liebig University Giessen, won the KI‑Sonderpreis, the special prize for artificial intelligence, in the Hessen Ideen competition 2026.

  3. August 2026Industry

    First privately funded project: PFAS‑free polymers

    Mirdyne has signed its first privately funded project, with an industrial partner under NDA. We will design PFAS‑free polymers with PRISM, to replace “forever chemicals”. Work starts next.

  4. July 2026Programme

    PRISM Alpha kicks off

    PRISM Alpha has started: a project in ESA’s Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP), led by Bimo Tech with ArianeGroup, Fraunhofer IAPT and amsight. It is the first project built around the full PRISM loop, for European space transport. The award ceremony was held in October.

  5. Close-up of a copper hearth: small pieces of raw metal loaded into its hollows, ready to be melted.

    OngoingProject

    Project SPARK: our first alloys are real

    In SPARK, an ESA project led by Bimo Tech, eight candidate alloys from our early screening were narrowed to two and made as real metal. Testing continues.

  6. July 2025Proposal

    PRISM put to ESA

    We submitted PRISM to ESA’s Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP), where ESA collects new ideas. PRISM Alpha, which followed, is a larger project, in ESA’s launcher programme FLPP.

    Read our submission (PDF)

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