New Boost! call for commercial space transportation services is open
European private sector companies developing commercial space transportation services are invited to submit proposals to ESA for co-funding and access to the space agency’s expertise and facilities. This new Boost! programme call for proposals is open through 2025, and follows a successful initial round that closed at the end of 2022.
ESA’s Boost! programme is designed to help entrepreneurs and their consortia developing launch services or in-orbit transportation and return-from-space capabilities. While building on the benefits of ESA partnership, they retain overall technical and commercial authority and responsibility for the services they are developing.
The new Boost! call for proposals has been published on esa-star, ESA’s System for Tendering And Registration, and is accessible for registered users here. Registration on esa-star is mandatory for all wishing to do business with ESA. To initiate the tendering process, interested industries are invited to submit an Outline Service Proposal to ESA on its Open Space Innovation Platform, OSIP.
At ESA’s 2022 ministerial-level meeting in Paris, member States decided to enhance opportunities for the European commercial space sector by expanding the Boost! programme. With more participating Member States and increased funding, ESA is extending its support to help the European commercial space transportation sector turn new and innovative space transportation service concepts into commercial reality.