The second reporting period (M18-M36 from July 2021 to December 2022) is focused on taking the inputs from the WP4 devoted to technology survey and developing the demonstrators in the frame of WP5, orbiting the rest of the WPs around the progress of the demonstrators. To that aim, from M18 to M36, the activities follow the logic :
* WP4 : Technology survey for launch range and launch complex
That task extended 4 months into the WP5 provided as output a set of technologies identified to require demonstration in the frame of WP5 following technological (lack of maturity) and market criteria (best added-value for SPO/LSP)
After WP4 activities, the WP provides as outcome the technological building blocks defined by their attributes of cost, risks, TRL, responsiveness, genericity and performance. These attributes contribute to assess the deployment roadmap of these services once demonstrated their added-value to operations and performances.
* WP5 Mock-up implementation of a subset of above-mentioned technologies that contribute to test the interoperability between those technological building blocks with the objective of demonstrating their standardisation, modularity and scalability.
The activities on WP4 outcome the set of technologies which are identified to require prototyping to demonstrate the added-value for the spaceports under key performance indicators (KPI) such us maturity, standardisation and performance. The Activities in the WP5 are devoted to the development of these demonstrations and the definition of Use Cases making those demonstrators operate together as if it was a ‘partial’ spaceport, demonstrating their interoperability and standardisation.
- WP2: provided support during the demonstration phase for design, development and integration of the multidisciplinary technologies
- WP3: the commercialisation activities are focused on pitching the demonstrated services of WP5, looking forward to exploiting the outcomes of SAMMBA from a standardisation point of view. With that aim, a 3GPP standard is prepared to be submitted by the consortium
- WP6: the developments and demonstrators in PR2 provided the material for the dissemination and communication, leading to several conferences and presentations and the User Manual in the website presenting the technologies and demonstrators on top of Spaceports infrastructures. A special mention to the GBSF conference (Marseille, December 2022), where all major actors of the European ground systems gathered for 3 days. The fact that the conference converged at the end of the project M36 offered a unique opportunity to present SAMMBA results and physical mock-up demonstrators in 2 booths along with 8 papers. Spaceport1 (Scotland), Esrange (Sweden), Andøya Spaceport (Norway), Hyimpulse (Germany), CSG (France) and PLD (Spain) are among the actors, LSP and SPO, that showed interest in SAMMBA results.