Moon to Mars initiative: Demonstrator Feasibility Grants

The Australian Moon to Mars Demonstrator Feasibility Grants provide industry and research institutions with grant funds for new feasibility activities for space projects.

Closed

This grant is currently closed to applications

What do you get?

Grants from $50,000 to $200,000 for space project feasibility studies.

You must provide a minimum of $50,000 cash contribution to eligible project expenditure.

Who is this for?

Australian businesses and publicly funded research organisations with space projects that will showcase Australia’s strengths to the world.

Overview

The Australian Moon to Mars initiative forms an important element of the Advancing Space: Australian Civil Space Strategy 2019-2028 and supports Australian organisations to join NASA’s inspirational endeavour to go forward to the Moon and on to Mars.

These grants support Australian businesses and researchers by assisting industry and research institutions to conduct feasibility activities for space projects.

The objectives are to:

demonstrate Australian small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) capacity and capability to develop space projects with a clear potential to support Moon to Mars activities for any of the following:
- qualification
- space operability
- space support
- access to space
develop and demonstrate the feasibility of space projects with the:
- potential to operate or directly support operations in space
- ability to support Moon to Mars activities
demonstrate the value, including commercial value, of space projects to the space industry and marketplace
develop Australian SME capability in early mission development activities