Game-Changing Innovations for European Launch Solutions
Awards five prizes of EUR 950,000 each to low-maturity, breakthrough innovations anywhere in the access-to-space supply chain, short of a complete launch solution.
DG DEFIS, the Commission's Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space, runs the call. Submissions are electronic only through the Portal's system -- paper applications are not accepted -- and the forms to fill in are the ones inside the Submission System itself, not the versions posted on the topic page, which exist for information only. The application itself has two parts: an online admi…
This is an EU prize under the Union Space Programme for innovations that could revolutionise access to space and lift the competitiveness of Europe's launch industry. It's open to low-maturity ideas, concepts, technologies, products, processes or digital solutions from across the access-to-space supply chain — everything except a complete, ready-made launch solution.
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