GRANT Garant is looking for partners to work on PPPA-2024-INNOVDEPLANT

Empowering excellence. Unlocking research potential. With over 200 successfully submitted intl R&I proposals plus support of over 175 EU-funded projects, GG has a substantial network of partners in the CE region and expertise in these relevant areas: alternative financing for innovation, dissemination & communication of results, EU policy analysis, innovation stakeholder contacts in the CE region, proposal development, and Structural Funds implementation & program evaluation.

INNOVDEPLANT

TOPIC ID: PPPA-2024-INNOVDEPLANT

Type of grant: Call for proposals

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

Deployable antennas are a key element of satellites enabling them to receive and transmit data. They are relevant for all types of space applications such as navigation, Earth observation, science and defence. Technology deployed on space antennas may find applications also in the civil, terrestrial market.

A number of challenges and considerations affect current deployable antennas for space applications, hereunder the following:

• the Union’s dependency on third countries for specific materials and technologies relevant for antennas, especially large deployable antennas with a diameter at or above 5 meters. That is particularly critical as this technology is also affected by third country export restrictions that are limiting the unrestricted access of Union space industry and therefore that industry’s ability to support Union sovereignty.
• the need for 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. This approach has an important impact on the final technology cost and time to market.

Expected Outcome: The expected outcomes of this pilot project will allow EU to reduce the dependencies from non-EU countries for the critical space technologies relevant to reflectors and deployable antennas and accelerate time to market. The identification of novel non-dependent materials, techniques to re-use parts, materials from end-of-life assets and antennas for assembly and manufacturing on orbit will contribute to increase EU sovereignty and allow unrestricted access to key, critical space technologies.

Please, visit the following page to get more information regarding this call: https://www.developmentaid.org/grants/view/1341452/innovdeplant?useNavigation=true