New Space Transportation Solutions And Services
HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-22
- Programme
- STRATEGIC AUTONOMY IN DEVELOPING, DEPLOYING AND USING GLOBAL SPACE-BASED INFRASTRUCTURES, SERVICES, APPLICATIONS AND DATA 2023
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- December 22, 2022
- Deadline
- March 28, 2023
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €23,100,000
- Min Grant Amount
- €4,000,000
- Max Grant Amount
- €10,000,000
- Expected Number of Grants
- 4
- Keywords
- HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-22HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01LaunchersLiquid Rocket PropulsionOn-orbit satellite servicingOrbital transportation and re-entry systemsSupporting Propulsion Technologies and Tools
Description
Expected Outcome:
Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
- Contribute to EU Green Deal objective through the reduction of the environmental impact of space transportation and to be prepared for the upcoming REACH regulations, especially with respect to the use of hydrazine and its derivatives, focusing on commercial market as a driver for business growth.
- Contribute to expand commercial space transportation offer and services with new space transportation solutions. The objective is to contribute to double the accessible new space transportation service market to European industry by 2030.
- Design and performance studies as well as business cases (demonstration of economical viability).
- Matured technologies up to TRL5-6 including functional test on ground.
These outcomes will contribute to enhance the sector competitiveness, in line with the Expected Impact of the destination.
Scope:
There are emerging opportunities in space transportation out of which some are recently started to being seized by European actors characterised by new uses of space (e.g. small satellites, larger constellations and payload recovery) new destinations (e.g. direct GEO, re-entry from LEO).
The expected proposed activities should contribute to the maturation up to TRL5-6 of enabling new technologies and subsystems (including common building blocks) in the field of green propulsion, micro launchers and associated launch facilities, kick stage, orbital propulsion and distancing, attitude and landing, re-entry solutions, smart satellite deployment systems/dispensers, for space transportation including also new routes up to Lunar orbit or surface.
The maturation could go up to subsystem and system [1] level technology demonstration and must include at least one of the following areas and linked technologies:
- Technologies for recovery of Space Transport vehicles elements:
- Technologies to be matured in order to allow the re-entry of launcher elements through the entire atmospheric flight domain from in-orbit up to soft landing on earth: Controlled hypersonic flight, the highly dynamic decent and landing maneuvre, aerodynamics and aerothermal design, attitude control system, actuators and propulsion system, advanced GNC design, propellant management/sloshing and system transient dynamics, low cost re-entry protection system, low cost, low weight and high performance structures.
- Technologies enabling recovery, high reuse and limited refurbishment need of launcher fairing: low cost and scalable concept design, structure with early consideration of manufacturing, distancing devices, recovery means solution, demonstrators for recovery and maintenance/overhaul.
- Technologies maturation for micro launcher first stage and booster stage. reusability concepts that have a strong potential for cost reduction.
- Space Transportation technologies in support to In-orbit servicing systems:
- Technologies allowing the in orbit reuse of a green and sustainable cryogenic elements for multiple operations and missions in-orbit: green propulsion and green Kick stage, versatile operation of cryogenic upper stages as on-orbits platforms, cryogenic propellant management for long duration missions, high multi-restart capability for in-space cryogenic engines, in-orbits cryogenics tanks, electric pumps for in-space propulsion, in-space refueling for cryogenic systems, interface and connection to in-space solutions, innovative low cost materials for in-space applications, attitude control systems (RACS), advanced avionics, GNC (Guidance, Navigation and Control).
All the activities should be complementary and coherent with the ESA on-going or future activities in particular those decided at the last ESA Ministerial held in November 2019 and planned to be decided at the ESA Ministerial planned in November 2022.
Proposals should provide all IPR dependencies and dependencies with other on-going activities, and detail the implementation, the reporting and the organisational as well as steering measures that will be taken to ensure that the proposed activities can be implemented and can achieve all the expected outcomes within the project schedule and budget.
In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.
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Activities are expected to achieve TRL 5-6 by the end of the project – The reference TRL definition is the ISO 16290:2013 applicable to the space sector.
[1] This excludes full launcher development
Destination & Scope
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
The page limit of the application is 70 pages.
2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).
In order to achieve the expected outcomes, and safeguard the Union’s strategic assets, interests, autonomy, and security, it is important to avoid a situation of technological dependency on a non-EU source, in a global context that requires the EU to take action to build on its strengths, and to carefully assess and address any strategic weaknesses, vulnerabilities and high-risk dependencies which put at risk the attainment of its ambitions. For this reason, participation is limited to legal entities established in Member States, Norway, Iceland and the United Kingdom. The eligibility of entities established in the United Kingdom to participate is conditional upon the following: (i) the United Kingdom is associated to Horizon Europe, and (ii) the United Kingdom’s equivalent space calls are published and open to the EU entities on a reciprocal basis.” Both conditions must be fulfilled on the date of the opening of this topic for submission.
For the duly justified and exceptional reasons listed in the paragraph above, in order to guarantee the protection of the strategic interests of the Union and its Member States, entities established in an eligible country listed above, but which are directly or indirectly controlled by a non-eligible country or by a non-eligible country entity, may not participate in the action unless it can be demonstrated, by means of guarantees provided by their eligible country of establishment, that their participation to the action would not negatively impact the Union’s strategic, assets, interests, autonomy, or security. The guarantees shall in particular substantiate that, for the purpose of the action, measures are in place to ensure that:
a) control over the applicant legal entity is not exercised in a manner that restrains or restricts its ability to carry out the action and to deliver results, that imposes restrictions concerning its infrastructure, facilities, assets, resources, intellectual property or know-how needed for the purpose of the action, or that undermines its capabilities and standards necessary to carry out the action;
b) access by a non-eligible country or by a non-eligible country entity to to sensitive information relating to the action is prevented; and the employees or other persons involved in the action have a national security clearance issued by an eligible country, where appropriate;
c) ownership of the intellectual property arising from, and the results of, the action remain within the recipient during and after completion of the action, are not subject to control or restrictions by non-eligible countries or non-eligible country entity, and are not exported outside the eligible countries, nor is access to them from outside the eligible countries granted, without the approval of the eligible country in which the legal entity is established.
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes
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Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes
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Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual
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Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes
Specific conditions
7. Specific conditions: described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme]
Documents
Call documents:
Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (HE RIA, IA)
Standard evaluation form — will be used with the necessary adaptations
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA)
MGA
Declaration of ownership and control
A compulsory questionnaire on the declaration of ownership and control is to be filled by all project participants as part of the application. All declarations must be assembled by the coordinator and uploaded in a single file in the portal submission system. For additional information on the assessment of ownership and control process and on the guarantees please consult the draft guidance for participation in restricted calls.
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Frequently Asked Questions About New Space Transportation Solutions And Services
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Latest Updates
An overview of the HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01 evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the link.
Call HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01 has closed on the 28/03/2023.
142 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-11: 11 proposals
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-12: 38 proposals
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-13: 1 proposal
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-21: 1 proposal
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-22: 17 proposals
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-23: 4 proposals
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-31: 4 proposals
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-32: 5 proposals
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-33: 0 proposals
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-34: 3 proposals
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-62: 7 proposals
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-63: 1 proposal
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-71: 37 proposals
• HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-72: 13 proposals
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in the 2nd half of July 2023.