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ESA Investment Forum – Invitation to investment companies
04-13-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)Find out how your company can participate in shaping the huge profit potential of future high-tech space technology spin-offs at the ESA Investment Forum, to be held at ESTEC in the Netherlands 24 April 2007.
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