Electric Propulsion thrusters flown or ordered

04.10.2016 | Electric Propulsion is one of technologies that will increase more in next future, however it is hard to say how many Electric Propulsion thrusters have already flown or have been ordered. To this purpose ESA and EPIC PSA have prepared a table with a list of Electric Propulsion thrusters flown or ordered for information, outreach ... Read more »

COMPET-3-2016 Proposals selected !

01.09.2016 | The evaluation process of the Electric Propulsion Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) call H2020 COMPET-3-2016 finalized by end of June and REA sent a notification to each proposal coordinator with the result of the evaluation and the evaluation form by beginning of July. The list of proposals selected is still preliminary pending on minor evolution and ... Read more »

SRC DAY 7th July 2016

11.08.2016 | REA and the EC organized on 7th July a dedicated Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) day in Brussels. All partners of the selected proposals for funding under the COMPET-3-2016 and COMPET-4-2016 calls, were invited by REA, together with EPIC and PERASPERA SRC Program Support Activities (PSAs) for a working day meeting to kick off the Grant Agreement ... Read more »

11th European Space Power Conference ESPC 2016

09.08.2016 | The 11th European Space Power Conference will be held in Greece from October 3-7, 2016. (http://www.espc2016.com/) In the ESPC 2016 will be a dedicated Round Table on “Cost reduction for PPU’s in Electric Propulsion”. Monday 3rd October (16:00-18:00) EPIC PSA will participate in this Round Table with a dedicated presentation on PPU issues in the ... Read more »

H2020 Electric propulsion article on DLR Countdown newsletter

08.08.2016 | DLR EPIC PSA colleagues: Lisa Martín Pérez and Marc Jochemich, published an Electric Propulsion dissemination article on the DLR Countdown newsletter nº 32 issued on 01/06/2016 about the Electric Propulsion and the Horizon 2020 EU funds promising space technologies. Don´t miss it! You can read the full article in the following link: Countdown_Horizon 2020 EPIC ... Read more »

Collaboration Agreement Annex1 – Declaration of Accession in Word version

08.07.2016 | As stated in the COMPET-3-2016 Call text, all partners of the Operational Grants and the partners of the PSA EPIC will have to agree and sign a Collaboration Agreement in order to ensure that results of the individual projects can be used to achieve the overall SRC objectives. A template for such a Collaboration Agreement ... Read more »

All Electric Propulsion Satellite ELECTRA contract signature

05.04.2016 | ELECTRA contract signature took place on 11 March 2016 at SES premises in Luxembourg with the presence of representatives of SES Astra, OHB Systems, ESA and some ESA Member States. ESA’s partnership with satellite operator SES will bring a new generation of small European telecommunications satellites that are propelled by electric thrusters, with a first ... Read more »

EC publishes the number of submitted proposals for the COMPET-3-2016 topics of the Horizon 2020 SRC on Electric Propulsion

14.03.2016 | The COMPET-3-2016 Call of the SRC on Electric propulsion has been closed on the 3 March 2016. The EC has already published the number of proposals submitted for the 2016 Space Call and its different topics, including COMPET-3-2016, in the Participants Portal. For COMPET-3-2016-a (Incremental Technologies), with an indicative budget of 18 M€, 3 proposals ... Read more »

COMPET-3-2016 Video Briefing for Applicants and Evaluators

23.02.2016 | This video has been created by EPIC PSA as a briefing for the evaluators and applicants. The objective of this video is to introduce to the H2020 Strategic Research Cluster on “In-Space electrical propulsion and station keeping” and serve as a briefing for potential evaluators and applicants for the H2020 COMPET-3-2016 topics of the H2020 ... Read more »

Deadline for COMPET-3-2016 is approaching

22.02.2016 | This is a reminder for potential applicants for the COMPET-3-2016 topis.  The deadline for proposal submission to the H2020 Space 2016 call is the 3rd of March. Don´t leave all for the last minute, and try to finalize your proposal well in advance to have the possibility to review it in detail ! The process ... Read more »