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“The lessons/experience I learned from your courses have been passed to engineers from industry across Europe”

European Space Agency – Planetary Protection

by Alan Dowson, Life Support & Physical Sciences Instrumentation (LIS) Facility Laboratory Manager, ESA ESTEC:

“Honeyman has played its part making sure we don’t contaminate Mars.”

“I have been a regular at Honeyman courses, I have completed;

– Advanced Sterilisation Validation
– Cleanroom Principles in Practice
– Microbiology for Non-Microbiologists (my favourite)

Planetary Protection is an international agreement by the committee on space research (COSPAR).

We (ESA) provide Planetary Protection courses to industry in relation to implementing Planetary Protection requirements on missions that land or have the risk to crash on any other world with a potential for [impacting] past or present life.

Most of the Instrument Developers in industry are Engineers and Technicians, so it is important to instruct how instruments may be handled in respect to cleanliness and contamination.

We have an ISO1 cleanroom in our facility. We also have a large dry heat steriliser. We are fortunate to clean, perform bio-assay, sterilise and pack a few of the ExoMars flight model instruments and also the ExoMars Two Main Parachutes flights models.

As a novice on cleanroom / sterility your courses were valuable to me, although they were pharmaceutical based, I learned the basics of how a cleanroom functioned (AHU), design, qualification, handling, gowning, cross contamination, sterilisation, procedure and a great basic microbiology that was such fun.

Although the Planetary Protection course given by Gerhard Kminek from ESA goes into more depth on contamination levels and procedure for specific missions, the lessons/experience I have learned from your courses have been passed to engineers from industry across Europe when they come to use our facility.

So we are part of the bigger picture and your company [Honeyman] has played its part making sure we don’t contaminate Mars.”

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