Implemented OSIP ideas — 2025

ESA's Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP) seeks novel ideas for new space research activities. Campaigns invite solutions to specific problems whilst Channels welcome ideas on more general topics. Those run by Discovery & Preparation, including the Open Discovery Ideas Channel, specifically look for ideas that could be implemented as system studies, early technology developments, or PhD or postdoc research co-funded by ESA and a university.

Discovery & Preparation started the following activities in 2023 as a result of ideas submitted via OSIP. Click on the title of an activity to find out more via the Activities Portal.

Channel: Open Discovery Ideas Channel

Multi-wavelength analysis of accelerated particles in Solar flares, Radbout University (NL)  – implemented January 2025

MorphoComp4D, Université Bretagne-Sud (FR), implemented January 2025

Ender Debris Mission: creating a commercial Business Case for Small Debris remediation, and preparing the path for Space Circular Economy, Thales Alenia Space España (ES), implemented January 2025

Assessment of a new manufacturing concept for improved Rhenium/Iridium thruster nozzles, RHP-Technology GMBH (AT), implemented January 2025

BRAVE: Bridging the gap between Robust and dAta-driVen control prototypE for launchers, DEIMOS Engenharia S.A. (PT), implemented January 2025

Streamlined Multi-DOF Actuation for Cost-Effective, High-Performance Fast Steering Mirrors, KOSMIA SÀRL (CH), implemented January 2025

Carbon fluoride as cathode for high energy density primary lithium batteries, UCA Université Clermont Auvergne (FR), implemented January 2025

Qualifying ABD®-900AM in closedloop LPBF additive manufacturing systems for aerospace applications, Alloyed Limited (UK), implemented January 2025

Development of a quality factor model for space radiation and manned space missions, University of Ioannina (GR), implemented February 2025

Multipactor critical gap localization using radiofrequency amplitude and phase information, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (ES), implemented February 2025

Qualifying ABD®-900AM in closedloop LPBF additive manufacturing systems for aerospace applications, Alloyed Limited (UK), implemented February 2025

Space Robotics System-Level Analysis for De-Risking Debris Removal and In-Orbit Servicing Missions, CSEM SA. Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (CH), implemented February 2025

Flexible solar array for LEO constellations, Airbus Netherlands B.V. (NL) – implemented February 2025

A Full Ku/Ka-band (13-30GHz) Symmetric Beamformer IC for Ultra-Compact Multi-Beam Operation, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich - ETH Zurich (CH), implemented February 2025

Chip-integrable entangled-photon generation through spontaneous four-wave mixing for satellite-mediated quantum networks, Quantopticon (UK), implemented March 2025

Deciphering compound rain-on-snow flood pathways as observed from satellites, Politecnico di Milano (IT), implemented March 2025

Deep Sintering of lunar regolith simulants, Technische Universität Berlin (DE), implemented March 2025

Contribution of NGGM/MAGIC mass monitoring missions to the representation of water, energy and carbon cycles in land surface assimilation systems, University of Bonn (DE), implemented March 2025

ROBODRESS – ROBOtic Construction with Found Materials: Rock DRESSing via Breaking and Reshaping, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich - ETH Zurich (CH), implemented March 2025

Demise by design – enhancing the heat fluxes to spacecraft equipment by utilising shape effects to achieve particular flow phenomena, Belstead Research Limited (UK), implemented April 2025

3D-printed smart damping components for aerospace applications, University of Twente (NL), implemented April 2025

Beneficiation and Extraction Strategies to Enable Urine-Based Plant Fertilizers, Solsys Mining (NO), implemented April 2025

SPARK. Advanced Packaging for Scalable THz Radiometry, TeraSi AB (SE), implemented April 2025

Wireless structural health monitoring of lightweight additively manufactured aluminum with multifunctional aerospace properties (WISH), BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (ES), implemented May 2025

Utilisation of the Martian atmospheric gases for collection, transport and beneficiation of regolith – Aeolis, DLR - German Aerospace Center (DE), implemented May 2025

Boosting Space Travel with Predictable, High-Efficiency Detonation Engines, Romanian Research and Development Institute for Gas Turbines COMOTI (RO), implemented May 2025

Modernizing planetary protection toolkits: enabling the new era for space exploration, Medical University of Graz (AT), implemented June 2025

PERSEO - A Percolation Theory of the Space Environment, University of Strathclyde (UK), implemented June 2025

Metallic microstructures design via conditional diffusion on graph representations, TU Delft (NL), implemented June 2025

Thrust Vector Control and Adaptive Throttling in Aerospike Engines via Controlled Inner Core Displacement, Romanian Research and Development Institute for Gas Turbines COMOTI (RO), implemented June 2025

Study of Opportunities for Elastocaloric Cooling and Heating Technology in Space Applications – SPACECOOL, University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (SI), implemented June 2025

Development of a miniaturized optical biosensor device with interchangeable probe sensors for monitoring astronaut health, microbiological status, and cancer biomarkers in space, SDS Optic (PL), implemented June 2025

Risk map for the Spaceflight Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome (SANS) through cardiovascular digital twins, Politecnico di Torino (IT), implemented June 2025

Nanoparticle Coatings to Mitigate the Multipactor Effect in High-Frequency Devices [NanoMitigate], Nanostine S.L. (ES), implemented July 2025

Satellite As A Service Marketplace - from Europe to the world: making satellites more valuable, Parsimoni (FR), implemented July 2025

Extreme temperature cycling of perovskite solar cells for space applications, University of Stuttgart (DE), implemented July 2025

Schottky-diode based SP2T Switches in Waveguide Technology, ACST GMBH (DE), implemented July 2025

CleanCube: Zero Derbis for CubeSat platforms

Sustainable platform integrating Hazard Intervention, End_x0002_of-life management and Debris avoidance (SHIELD), AIKO SRL (IT), implemented January 2025

SPACEKEEPERS, GMV Aerospace and Defence S.A. (ES), implemented January 2025

CleanCube: Enabling Sustainable CubeSats Platforms in VLEO with Modular Plugand-Play AirBreathing Electric Propulsion Systems, Stellar Space Industries (NL), implemented January 2025

CleanCube - TidyCube, ISISpace Group (NL), implemented January 2025

Charon: a fully independent Coulomb Drag -based system to deorbit CubeSats after failure or dead-on-arrival, Aurora Propulsion Technologies Oy (FI), implemented January 2025

EcoSTAR: an ecodesigned platform SysNova Campaign

IT-SHINES: Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Horizons in Impactful and Next-generation Earth-orbiting, New Horizon Srl (IT), implemented March 2025

ECOSAT (Environmentally Conscious Optimization of Satellite Technologies), DEIMOS Engineering and Systems SLU (ES), implemented March 2025

Sustainable Satellites: Air-Breathing Propulsion for Low-Latency, Eco-Friendly Global 5G Connectivity, IT - Instituto de Telecomunicações (PT), implemented March 2025

GreenGuard, Redwire Space NV (BE), implemented March 2025

Triton-E5 – EcoSTAR, LuxSpace Sàrl (LU), implemented March 2025

Large Space Structure Campaign (LATTICE)

B4LSS - In Space Bonding to Assemble, Repair and Maintain Large Space Structures, Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM) (DE), implemented March 2025

SpaceAlign: Trustworthy Robotics for Large Space Structures, Danish Technological Institute (DK), implemented March 2025

Dynamic Property Estimation and Control of Large Space Structures During In-Space Assembly, IT - University of Northumbria at Newcastle (UK), implemented March 2025

REALISE2 – Robotics-Enabled Assembly of Large In-Orbit Structures with Embedded Electronics, University of Trieste (IT), implemented March 2025

SKYWALKER: Safe Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Robotic Crawling and Navigation on Large Space Structures, Aalborg University (DK), implemented March 2025

Optimised Structure, Targeted, Assembly using, Robots with Reinforcement Learning (OSTAR-RL), Satellite Applications Catapult (UK), implemented March 2025

LOFT: Loose Fit Clamp Technique for Assembly of Large Space Structures, Satellite Applications Catapult (UK), implemented April 2025

Intelligent TSN Interfaces Aggregator, ITTI (PL), implemented April 2025

ShearScope – Towards passive shearography for on-orbit non-destructive inspection, TU Delft (NL), implemented April 2025

ECHO2: End-to-End Control for Handling Operations in Orbit, University of Malaga (ES), implemented May 2025

Innovative Modelling, in-situ Identification and active Control methods for In-Orbit Manufacturing, Assembly and Operation of large antennas (MICIOMAO), ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France (FR), implemented May 2025

System Studies for the Circular Economy in Space

Towards a Circular Space Economy: Satellite Refurbishment and Upgrading Services for Orbital Sustainability, Astroscale Ltd (UK), implemented April 2025

Recycling Space Plant, Thales Alenia Space (FR), implemented April 2025

Visiting Researcher Channel

Brain-Inspired Computing with Spiking Neural Networks and RISC-V, University of Milano-Bicocca (IT), implemented April 2025

Towards Onboard Autonomy: Deployment of ML-based Anomaly Detection on Space-Qualified Hardware, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (IT), implemented April 2025

Innovative and Disruptive Methods for Robust Trajectory Optimization under Uncertainty for Cislunar Missions, Politecnico di Milano (IT), implemented July 2025

Global simulation of Earth's upper atmosphere with the IRAP Plasmasphere-Ionosphere Model (IPIM), CNRS (FR), implemented July 2025