Deadline: 2-Sep-22
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £4 million for projects up to £2 million in size.
The aim of the competition is to encourage participants from industry, academia and RTOs to participate in this cross-sector innovation challenge. This is to support the High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS) platform development by funding innovative prototypes dual use and multi-mission payloads.
Your project must:
- propose versatile, multi-mission solutions which tackle multiple challenge topics and consider the wider system-of-systems
- adhere to payload limits, platform interface requirements, as well as environmental and thermal requirements
- conduct ground based testing to demonstrate theoretical compliance with the challenge statements and readiness for experimental flight-testing
Your project can:
- propose holistic solutions which consider multiple challenge topics, for example, a solution comprising sensors, a suitable datalink, and associated processing technology
- consider HAPS as part of a wider system-of-systems for example, connectivity to other HAPS platforms to deliver a greater overall effect, or the use of a high-bandwidth satellite connection to extend reach
Themes
- Your project must demonstrate that your solution is compatible with at least one model of stratospheric platform, where that model:
- already exists as a full-scale flight-tested prototype, or where credible plans and the associated financing are in place to deliver and test-fly a full-scale prototype platform prior to the conclusion of the challenge execution period
- is designed to offer a mission endurance in excess of 6 days
- Solutions should maximize the use of common and standard interfaces and open architectures to offer compatibility with a range of platform models and types, including:
- fixed-wing solar HAPS
- Lighter than Air (LTA) HAPS,
- H2 HAPS,
- CubeSats, SkimSats
- High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) platforms
- Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) platforms
Funding Information
Your project’s total costs must be between £100,000 and £2 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- start by 1 March 2023
- end by 28 February 2025
- last between 12 and 24 months
- carry out all of its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size, academic institution, a research and technology organisation (RTO), charity, not for profit or public sector organisation
- collaborate with other UK registered organisations
- If the lead organisation is an RTO it must collaborate with 2 businesses (business of any size).
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- business of any size
- academic institution
- charity
- not for profit
- public sector organisation
- research and technology organisation (RTO)
- Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
- The lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application.
- Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.
For more information, visit Innovate UK.