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Space Café WebTalk Recap: Renato Krpoun on Swiss Space Innovation

Renato Krpoun, Credits: SSO

In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Renato Krpoun, Head of the Swiss Space Office at the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI, Switzerland talked about Swiss innovation in space.
Renato Krpoun shared his thoughts about the Space ecosystem in Switzerland, and the potential of small space-faring nations. He talked about Swiss heritage in space, the diversity of Swiss contributions to ongoing and planned missions, and explained why it is not a surprise that investments in Switzerland’s space startups were arising sharply last year.

He also answered relevant questions from the audience. This Space Cafè WebTalk, held on 18 August 2020, was hosted by Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. The Space Cafè WebTalk series is SpaceWatch.Global’s innovative webinar platform featuring global space experts.

The complete video can be seen here:

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