Developing and promoting the regional space ecosystem on a national and European scale is the vocation of Club Galaxie. Founded in Toulouse in 2001, it brings together around a hundred companies of the space domain in Occitania which represent 35,000 jobs industrial and service.
On November 4, 2024 at the Cité de l'Espace, Club Galaxie presented its traditional awards. Created in 2008, they reward young SME managers, students, researchers and business creation project leaders. They are open to recently created companies in the region, for a maximum of five years or in the process of being created, which promote innovationsof the technologiesof the productsand services et applications from space and/or using data from the space sector.
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On the occasion of this 16th ceremony, the Galaxy priceendowed with €10,000 went to Orius. Founded in 2021, the start-up, based in Escalquens near Toulouse, specializes in the production of plant-based raw materials. An activity that interests the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, nutraceuticals and also space sectors. Orius develops very efficient cultivation systems. Among these, a cultivation unit hydroponic high precision referred to Biomeboxcapable of adapting both temperature and brightness, humidity, irrigation and nutrition, according to the specific needs of each plant. This Biomebox would make it possible to cultivate fruits, vegetables, mushrooms and roots and thus supply future space bases.
Anti-vibration device, satellite monitoring, autophagic propulsion
The Star awardendowed with €2,500, rewarded Tacita Dynamics. The young Toulouse company, founded in 2022, develops innovative solutions, based onenergy pumpingto dampen vibrations. In practice, vibrations are an unwanted surplus of energy that the process designed by Tacita Dynamics allows to capture and dissipate quickly, thus significantly reducing their amplitudes. This technology called AirNES is the result of 20 years of industrial collaborations led by Guilhem Michon's research team at the Clément Ader Institute in Toulouse. The start-up benefited from a maturation program from Toulouse Tech Transfer.
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The Montpellier-based Groundspace received, for its part, the prize jury's favorite. Founded in 2019, the company develops turnkey solutions for management and of surveillance of the satellite radio spectrum. Its flagship product, Muskratresponds to the challenges of monitoring megaconstellations of telecommunications satellites, such as Starlink et OneWeb. Incubated by the BIC of Montpellierwithin the program ESA BIC South Francethe company's ambition is to facilitate access and use of space data for satellite operators and space communications regulators. Thanks to its innovative solutions, it simplifies the distribution of this data while guaranteeing optimized access.
The audience award was handed over to Alpha Impulsion. The Toulouse start-up specializes in the development of space launchers based on disruptive technology: autophagic hybrid propulsion. This new architecture allows rocket fuel to be used as a structure, eliminating the need to build tanksmultiple stages, separation systems and other heavy elements that do not contribute to propulsion. The company, which was founded in 2022, hopes to take off Garnetthe first autophagic rocket, from 2027. By increasing the payload capacities up to one ton, it would thus become the European micro launcher the most profitable in the world.
