PPPA – Innovative deployable antennas – 2024

Objectives

• To reduce the dependencies from non-EU countries for the critical space technologies relevant to reflectors and deployable antennas and accelerate time to market
• To enable the space sector to rely on space qualified technology with high level of quality, reliability, robustness, suitability to space harsh environment demonstrated by in-orbit space demonstration and validation
• To contribute to developing, deploying global space-based services applications and data and contribute to fostering the EU’s space sector competitiveness

Priorities

• Priority 1: The development of novel techniques and manufacturing technologies for deployable antennas, including the development of low-cost and short manufacturing-time reflector moulds that are also compatible with larger diameters, at or above 5 meters
• Priority 2: The replacement of materials needed from outside the Union by developing novel materials and surfaces to ensure equivalent current performance or improved levels in terms of losses, depolarization, bandwidth, efficiency of reflector antennas
• Priority 3: The identification of methods to retrieve the useful materials or components from end-of-life antennas for reuse in the assembly or manufacturing of new hardware on orbit
• Priority 4: The definition of concepts for on-orbit assembly of large antennas or re-use of antennas from end-of-life satellites on new assets and the evaluation of trade-offs of various architectures relevant for Earth Observation, Telecom

Eligibility

• Proposals are expected to promote cooperation between different actors (industry, SMEs and research institutions)
• Proposals should explore synergies and be complementary to already funded actions in the context of technology development at component level as well as developments in the scope of the co-Programmed European Partnership on Globally Competitive Space Systems (‘Space Partnership’). It is expected that projects make use of existing European technologies and/or building blocks at component level contributing to European non-dependence and strengthen competitiveness. Furthermore, proposed activities should be complementary to national activities and activities funded by the European Space Agency (ESA)

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• Total budget of the call: 1.45 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 1 million and 1.45 million euro