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HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-22

Low cost high thrust propulsion for European strategic space launchers - technologies maturation including ground tests -

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Expected Outcome:

Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

  • Contribution to the overarching objective of launch cost/price reduction by 50% by 2030 (with respect to A6/VegaC cost/price 2021 economic conditions), for the benefit of EU Space programmes implementation and going towards reinforcing EU‘s independent capacity to access to space.
  • Innovation acceleration of enabling technologies (maturing, prototyping, on ground tests)
  • Identification of mature technologies at TRL 3-4 for cost-reduction possibilities in the current European launchers
  • Matured technologies up to TRL 5-6 by 2023/24, including prototyping and on ground tests at subsystem level
  • Cost reduction investigation and demonstration.

These outcomes will contribute to enhance EU strategic autonomy and sector competitiveness, in line with the Expected Impact of the destination.

Scope:

Cost reduction and improving flexibility of European launch systems are the main challenges in order to foster European industry competitiveness on the global market.

The propulsion systems represent a significant part of launch system costs. It is necessary to mature new or optimised low cost effective (lower number of parts, better operability), high performance (high thrust to weight ratio, high specific impulse) and green propulsion concepts, technologies and propellants for high thrust engines.

The activities should address maturation of enabling technologies, building blocks, tools and processes including maintenance/overhaul and safety, up to TRL5/6 and subsystem tests including prototyping and integrated tests at subsystems level.

The matured technologies, building blocks, tools and processes should be applicable to strategic launchers able to launch EU Space Programme components, with the objective of enabling operational capacities by 2030 and preferably earlier for current launch solutions. The tests should be appropriate to this objective.

The proposed activities must also support EU non-dependence objective and include the assessment of costs reduction investigations and test results towards the overarching objective mentioned in the expected outcomes.

The activities will address one or several of the following areas:

  • low cost propulsion,
  • throttability,
  • reduced number of parts with extensive application of Additive manufacturing, or new composite technologies
  • maintenance/overhaul,
  • associated fluidics,

The activities should include as many as technologies possible in each area to maximise the number of matured technologies to be submitted to integrated tests at subsystem level (all technologies together).

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. 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 TRL5-6 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

News flashes

2022-06-30

An overview of the HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01 evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the link.

2022-06-30

An overview of the HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01 evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the link.

2022-06-30

An overview of the HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01 evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the link.

2022-06-30

An overview of the HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01 evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the link.

2022-02-16
Call HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01 has closed on the 16/02/2022. 61 proposals have been submitted. The breakdown per topic is:• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-11: 8 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-12: 19 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-21: 3 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-22: 3 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-23: 12 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-41: 1 proposal• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-42: 1 proposal• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-43: 3 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-44: 3 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-62: 1 proposal• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-81: 7 proposals Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in the end of June 2022. 
2022-02-16
Call HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01 has closed on the 16/02/2022. 61 proposals have been submitted. The breakdown per topic is:• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-11: 8 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-12: 19 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-21: 3 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-22: 3 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-23: 12 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-41: 1 proposal• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-42: 1 proposal• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-43: 3 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-44: 3 proposals• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-62: 1 proposal• HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-81: 7 proposals Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in the end of June 2022. 
2021-12-22
Declaration of ownership and controlA 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.
2021-12-22
Declaration of ownership and controlA 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.
2021-11-08

 

The technical guidance document is available at https://europa.eu/!uUdufP

Following the adoption of the revised Horizon Work Programme on 28 October 2021, for technical reasons the planned opening date of the call has been postponed until 2 November 2021.

2021-11-08

 

The technical guidance document is available at https://europa.eu/!uUdufP

Following the adoption of the revised Horizon Work Programme on 28 October 2021, for technical reasons the planned opening date of the call has been postponed until 2 November 2021.

2021-11-02
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-12(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-21(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-62(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-22(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-23(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-42(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-81(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-11(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-41(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-43(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-44(HORIZON-RIA)
2021-11-02
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-12(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-21(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-62(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-22(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-23(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-42(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-81(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-11(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-41(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-43(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-44(HORIZON-RIA)
2021-10-29

Following the adoption of the revised Horizon Work Programme on 28 October 2021, for technical reasons the planned opening date of the call has been postponed until 2 November 2021.

2021-10-29

Following the adoption of the revised Horizon Work Programme on 28 October 2021, for technical reasons the planned opening date of the call has been postponed until 2 November 2021.

call topic details
Call status: Closed
Opening date: 2021-11-02 (4 years ago)
Closing date: 2022-02-16 (4 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage

Budget: 19,800,000
Expected grants: 1
Contribution: 15,000,000 - 19,000,000
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