# Latest from Mirdyne. ![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.](https://prism.mirdyne.com/img/news-esa-flpp-first-2026.webp) Photo credit: ESA 14 October 2026 Award ## 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. ![Team PRISM on stage at the Hessen Ideen awards, holding the KI-Sonderpreis certificate, with the organisers.](https://prism.mirdyne.com/img/news-hessen-ideen-2026.webp) 2026 Award ## 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. August 2026 Industry ## 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. July 2026 Programme ## 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. ![Close-up of a copper hearth: small pieces of raw metal loaded into its hollows, ready to be melted.](https://prism.mirdyne.com/img/spark-hearth-charge.webp) Ongoing Project ## 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. July 2025 Proposal ## 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)](https://ideas.esa.int/core/apps/IMT/UploadedFiles/00/f_96f2d81f3c353284d4fa63ec784ea44d/OSIP.pdf?v=1774527049) Start ## Tell us what your part must survive. We’ll tell you what PRISM can find, and how we’d prove it. [Register interest](https://prism.mirdyne.com/interest/) [GitHub](https://github.com/Darth-Hidious/PRISM) --- This page on the web: Pages: [Home](https://prism.mirdyne.com/) · [Platform](https://prism.mirdyne.com/platform/) · [Method](https://prism.mirdyne.com/method/) · [Company](https://prism.mirdyne.com/company/) · [News](https://prism.mirdyne.com/news/) · [Contact](https://prism.mirdyne.com/contact/) · [Register interest](https://prism.mirdyne.com/interest/) Legal: [Impressum](https://prism.mirdyne.com/impressum/) · [Privacy](https://prism.mirdyne.com/privacy/) The whole site, for language models: [llms.txt](https://prism.mirdyne.com/llms.txt)