Commercial Developments

We support commercial companies with R&D activities for the development of ground & user technologies and products targeting commercial markets, in the domains of satellite navigation (GNSS), Earth Observation, and any other user segment.

Ground & User Segment Markets in Space Applications

Ground and User Segment Companies in Europe

Yearly revenues worldwide in satellite downstream applications account for more than $100B
Time-to-market is typically 6 to 24 months
More than 1200 companies are present in ESA States, mostly Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Value Proposition

Companies in ESA Participating States can apply to co-funded development activities in order to improve their competitiveness:

Competences: create sustainable jobs and competences
Sustainability: create revenue generating products and business
Innovation: develop state of the art technologies

GSTP Make

The GSTP Make programme supports commercial ground & user segment design, development, testing and productisation activities. Industry defines the work to be performed and the technical performances to be achieved. Contracts are awarded on the basis of proposals made by Industry for developments aligned with their own product and technology roadmap plans. Products and technologies are defined to be any hardware, software/firmware, or systems.

The main characteristics of GSTP Make are:

Support the introduction of new technologies and techniques up to TRL 6 (Prototype, EM)
Develop new products or enhance existing products up to TRL 8 (Product, EQM)
Open Call for Proposal, in direct negotiation
Industry initiative, defining the business / strategy and technical aspects
Co-funded by ESA and Industry, with special support for SMEs and Research Institutes
Requires Letter of Support from National Delegation
Companies own the IPR

Maximum level of co-funding in GSTP Make

ESA provides:

Technical expertise and access to labs
Commercial know-how
Wide view of the market in more than 30 countries
Networking within industrial community

Examples of Commercial Ground & User Projects

Project		Consortium
	Land Analytics Earth Observation Platform (LAEOP)	Indra
	Multi-GNSS Simulation & Test Environment (MGSE)	TeleOrbit, Fraunhofer IIS, TeleConsult
	Multi-mission Direct Access Terminal for PAZ, TerraSAR-X and other Satellites (M-DAT)	Indra, Hisdesat
	GNSS Recorder for Anti Spoofing (GRAS)	CGI, Folkline Enterprises, NLR, FGI
	GNSS HIL Simulation Stella NGC	M3Systems
	QA707 Real Time SDR Simulator	Qascom
	GNSS Data Acquisition and Replay System (GDARS)	Saphyrion
	Advanced GNSS Reference Station (R3B)	Indra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
	Secure Tracking Services (S-TrackS)	CGI, Sintecs, FGI
	Multi GNSS Reference Station (MGRS)	CapGemini, OMP