Call for Proposals 2025 at the ESA Phi-Lab Switzerland
The Big Question: “What if every satellite could carry a quantum sensor the size of a shoebox?”
We seek breakthrough approaches linked to technology conundrums worth solving that aim at demonstrating significant progress in areas like:
- Control system miniaturization, all the way to chip-scale
- Environmental resilience, including thermal and vibration management
- Sensor integration, such as by combining multiple quantum sensing modalities
- Scalable production methods suitable for commercial manufacturing
The harsh space environment serves as an ideal testbed: technologies meeting these requirements will readily translate to terrestrial commercial applications. Advances should therefore show clear pathways toward quantum sensor enabled systems, their applications and their commercialisation for space, for example such as:
- Space-based gravity field mapping for climate and earthquake monitoring
- Space-based quantum magnetometers for space weather and planetary exploration
- RF spectrum monitoring for ultra-wideband detection
- Quantum RADAR/LiDAR for enhanced resolution and accuracy
- Chip-sized atomic clocks.
Deadline 01.05.2025
Open Space Innovation Platform – OSIP – Campaign: Q-CPR: Breakthrough Quantum Sensing Technologies