Low-Cost Space Launch

Deadline: 2021-06-01
Award: €10,000,000
Open to: Everyone in an EU Member State*

The challenge is to develop a European technologically non-dependent solution for launching light satellites into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), which will enable dedicated low-cost launches with committed schedule and orbit.

Your solution will enhance on European access to space and associated technological non-dependence and thereby will provide strategic and competitive advantages for European companies, SMEs, universities and research organizations.

The solution needs to be innovative, implementable, affordable in development and exploitation phases, and commercially viable.

The prize will be awarded to the contestant(s) who, in the opinion of the jury, demonstrates a solution that best meets the following cumulative criteria:

- Excellence
- Technical implementation
- Service sustainability