Twinkle Project Consultancy

Tender description

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.