Participate in the Challenge:
Orbital Bioworks

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Important: All information must be provided in English.

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Your position (e.g. project manager, CEO)

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What made you decide to actually apply to this Challenge?

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YOUR SOLUTION

Project Title

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Short Description

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CORE IDEA.
(max. 4500 characters, approx. 750 words)

Explain the core idea of your approach.

How does the approach differ from existing terrestrial methods and from other known microgravity experiments? How does it go beyond the state of the art?

Which of the three focus areas of the Challenge is most fitting to your approach? If your approach falls outside of the focus areas, please still indicate your implementation strategy.

What are the specific limitations of terrestrial systems that you aim to overcome by deploying your technology under microgravity?

What are potential benefits of microgravity that could create added value to your existing approach/product? Please either provide specific literature or data from your own work.

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COMMERCIALIZATION AND REGULATORY PATHWAYS
(max. 3000 characters, approx. 500 words)

How would you translate the outcomes of the challenge towards commercialization?

Have you done market/customer validation already?

What regulatory pathway is required to bring your product/process to market (e.g. EMA/FDA, GMP, REACH, ECSS), and how do you plan to address it?

At what production volume and unit cost does your in-orbit approach become economically competitive compared to terrestrial alternatives? How many flights per year are required?

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SYSTEM DESIGN, MATURITY AND PAYLOAD CONSTRAINTS
(max. 3000 characters, approx. 500 words)

Describe the design and functionality of all individual components and subsystems of your approach.

Which Technology Readiness Level (TRL) does the system and all relevant subsystems currently meet? Please outline which components within your system are already operational or tested and at what scale?

How would you adapt your system to the conditions of a parabolic flight and to an orbital flight?

Payload constraints: Please indicate expected mass, volume, power budget, thermal dissipation, data rate, and required environmental conditions (temperature, pressure, vibration/g-load tolerance during launch).

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RISKS AND SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS
(max. 1800 characters, approx. 300 words)

Safety and biosafety: What biosafety level (BSL-1/2) applies to the organisms, cell lines or biological materials used? Are GMOs involved? Does the payload contain toxic, flammable, pressurised or reactive substances? Describe your containment concept and compliance with relevant standards (e.g. ECSS, NASA-STD-5018, ISS Payload Safety Review).

What other risks do you foresee, and how do you plan to account for them?

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ANALYTICAL PROCESSES
(max. 3000 characters, approx. 500 words)

Describe what analytical processes you will employ to unambiguously demonstrate microgravity advantage.

How will you generate the 1g ground reference dataset (e.g. ground control, clinostat, random positioning machine) to isolate the microgravity effect?

How many replicates per mission, and how many missions are required to reach statistical significance? Please describe the underlying power analysis.

Do you already have any pre-existing IP?

Sample return and post-flight handling: Under which conditions (cold chain, fixation, timing after splashdown/landing)? Or is in-situ analytics plus data downlink sufficient?

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WORK PLAN
(max. 6000 characters, approx. 1000 words)

Please present a work plan that shows the work packages necessary to complete the goals of this Challenge

The plan should cover the entire duration of both stages. The plan should also contain information on what objectives you are planning to have achieved after the first stage.

Describe the milestones you want to achieve at the end of stage 1 (flight readiness), at the end of stage 2 (orbital mission). What goals would you like to achieve if you were given two additional orbital missions?

The plan should also contain information on where collaboration and subcontracting work packages will be required.

The plan should contain cost information, including contributions by the team or the team’s institution (e. g. personnel, licenses, infrastructure) for both stages of the Challenge.

The plan should include commercialization strategies for bringing your orbital biotech application to market.

Please also include your overall financial situation: existing funding, investors, expected co-financing beyond the Challenge budget, current burn rate and runway.

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PLEASE STATE YOUR FINANCIAL COST ESTIMATE FOR STAGE 1
(max. 250.000 EUR) (max. 100 characters, in EUR)

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PLEASE PRESENT YOUR TEAM.
(max. 3000 characters, approx. 500 words)

Address:

Why are you the best person to do this? Why is your team the best suited to achieve the goal of this Challenge?

What relevant field-specific expertise and experience do you already have and with whom?

Describe any steps or partnerships and collaborations your team will take/has taken to advance this project beyond the academic environment.

Please attach the CVs of the key personnel.

Please state year and month of (planned) founding

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ATTACHMENTS

ATTACHMENTS

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• CVs of key personnel
• Detailed cost overview (PDF)
• Please add the form “DECLARATION on RUS SANCTIONS” (obligatory). You can find the document here: German | English

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Participate in the Challenge:Orbital Bioworks

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Participate in the Challenge:
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