Payload Hosting Initiative Rounds
2nd Round: from 4 October 2023 to 31 March 2024
Press Release: UNOOSA and MBRSC announced the awardees for the PHI-2 programme (16 October 2024)
Press Release: UNOOSA and MBRSC announce a new opportunity under PHI programme (4 October 2023)
Webinars
2nd Round Schedule
Opened for Application:
4 October 2023
Announcement of Opportunity Webinar:
Wednesday 1 November 2023 13:00 CET, register
here
Deadline for submitting the Application Form:
31 March 2024 23:59 Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2)
Announcement of Opportunity Documents
- Announcement of Opportunity (.pdf)
- Application Form (.docx) *updated 8 December due to numbering and formatting error in the original
Reference Materials
- PHI Platform User's Guide Version 2.0 (.pdf) Update on 25 September 2023
- Due Diligence Form (.docx)
Previous Rounds
The first round opened in 2022, the winners of this round are the Bahrain Space Agency (formerly National Space Science Agency) of the Kingdom of Bahrain and Antarikchya Pratisthan Nepal. Their payloads will test an optimized Advanced Encryption Standard and study the operation of a middleware for drones in space respectively. The payloads will provide practical experience, knowledge and skills in space technology to the teams of both countries.