PUSH 2025 Contest Launch: Built on Success, Focused on the Future

The European Space Agency is pleased to announce the launch of PUSH 2025, the third edition of its Programme for USerbase enHancement (PUSH) contest, a commercialisation initiative designed to support emerging European space technologies transition from innovation to market adoption.

Following the demonstrated success of the 2023 and 2024 editions, PUSH 2025 continues ESA’s mission to strengthen Europe’s space ecosystem.

About PUSH 2025

PUSH 2025 focuses on the commercialisation of digital tools driving future space missions, targeting two key domains:

• High-Performance & Edge Computing: AI-enabled systems for space system development & testing, onboard autonomy and mission-critical processing at the edge.
• Simulations & Digital Twin Environments: platforms for mission design, orbital and system dynamics modelling, trade-off analysis, product definition, interfaces, risk and programmatic assessments, up to operations.

Selected companies will each receive €75,000 in funding to advance their solution and access new markets. Further details follow the application link.