• Direct Support to the EC/HaDEA for the whole duration of the PSA project, and support to HaDEA in the assessment and monitoring of the various activities and results of the respective SRCs projects (WP3),
• Dissemination and Education activities, mainly around the organization of EPIC Workshops and the exploitation of its results (WP4),
• Technology mapping and application requirements follow-on to update of the roadmaps and masterplan taking into account ESA EP Harmonization updates and the results of the SRC OGs, and EPIC2 activities (WP2),
The EPIC project has helped European Electric Propulsion industry to develop products that are now sold not only to European spacecraft primes but also to American primes such as Boeing. Boeing would like to embark the PPS5000 and the RIT-22 for their telecommunication spacecraft. These two electric propulsion systems received funding in the frame of EPIC. Furthermore, constellation of satellites such as Starlink or OneWeb are using electric propulsion systems from America and Russia, the low power Hall Effect thrusters from Busek, SpaceX and Fakel. EPIC has provided funding development of such thrusters at European level to compete at world level. The current war of Ukraine with Russia has implications on the provision of any electric propulsion system from Russia, thanks to EPIC the European technology was ready to offer an entire European solution such as the PPS 5000 from Safran. Safran is today leader in the manufacturing of Hall Effect thrusters at World level with products such as the PPS5000.
