EIC Accelerator Challenge: Customer-driven, innovative space technologies and services
The overall goal of this Challenge is to ensure Europe is able to service and protect its own Space infrastructure, avoiding the risk of losing its strategic autonomy, and enhance the competitiveness of its space industry by encouraging the emergence of innovative, interoperable, scalable, and autonomous “customer-driven” innovative space technologies and services.
In terms of technological developments, the specific objectives of this Challenge are:
- To have the means to inspect spacecraft in orbit, to augment satellite capabilities and resilience;
- To develop autonomous and in-space collision avoidance capabilities e.g. use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Machine Learning (ML) for collision avoidance manoeuvres, space debris positioning data and develop in-space mobility propulsion capabilities;
- To further mature assembly and manufacturing in orbit with different applications (e.g. in-orbit, cis-lunar exploration, Earth observation, space debris inspection,