Preparing demonstration missions for collaborative Earth Observation and Satellite telecommunication for Space solutions
Funds up to three demonstration projects, worth as much as EUR 6 million each, that mature satellite communication and Earth observation technologies toward flight readiness.
This topic sits inside the co-programmed European Partnership on Globally Competitive Space Systems, and projects it funds are expected to report results back to that partnership to support its own performance monitoring. It is one of more than twenty SPACE-related topics opened together under the same HORIZON-CL4-2025-02 call, each carrying its own separate budget and grant count. Costs are paid …
The Commission wants higher-maturity demonstrations (aiming for TRL 7-8) of digital technologies for satellite communication and Earth observation: on-board edge computing and AI-assisted image processing, standardised ground-segment data flows, and open hardware building blocks such as RISC-V based processors. Each proposal must clearly identify one main focus area — SatCom, EO on-board processing, or shared cross-domain building blocks — even if it touches more than one.
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