Airbus Challenge 2024: "Boosting responsible Commercialisation of Space"

This call for projects is open from February 15 to April 23, 2024.

Airbus is a European leader and pioneer in the space sector, with a strong focus on technology and industrial development using new commercial approaches. With the vision of a low emission space industry, Airbus aims to boost responsible space commercialisation in Europe, whilst focusing on efficiency and the environment, both on Earth and in space. The aim is to promote new space applications by integrating and connecting different systems and sectors along the entire space industry value chain, while protecting the space environment.

The challenge:

Airbus is looking for innovators with ideas for exceptional hardware, industrial processes, applications, or business models with relevance for space that promise to have a lasting influence on our daily lives. The focus is on smart solutions enabling innovations for space and Earth on topics such as, but not limited to:

• Reduction of space debris and waste in satellite and launcher production: e.g. technologies for resource efficient and climate neutral manufacturing on Earth; concepts and technologies for resource recovery and removal of space debris for Earth or ideas for commercial platforms and payload approaches
• Enabling 5G / 6G Connectivity from space to Earth: Concepts and technologies to connect and integrate space-based networks and data into terrestrial mobile networks; new IoT and AI applications and services enabled by hyperconnectivity e.g. in environmental monitoring, secure communications, logistics, telemedicine or smart cities.
• Human spaceflight in Low Earth Orbit (LEO): Technologies and applications for building and sustaining infrastructures in LEO, development of use cases for non-commercial and commercial human spaceflight.