{"id":553199,"date":"2026-07-31T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/553199\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:10:09","slug":"2026-second-quarter-future-launchers-preparatory-programme-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/553199\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 second quarter Future Launchers Preparatory Programme highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2026\/07\/ESA_s_FIRST!_Future_Innovation_and_Research_in_Space_Transportation!_initiative_Structures_Materials_Mechanisms_and_Processes_for_Space_Transportation\" class=\"popup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ESA_s_FIRST!_Future_Innovation_and_Research_in_Space_Transportation!_initiative_Structures_Materials.jpeg\" alt=\"ESA\u2019s FIRST!(Future Innovation and Research in Space Transportation!) initiative Structures, Materials, Mechanisms and Processes for Space Transportation\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2026\/07\/ESA_s_FIRST!_Future_Innovation_and_Research_in_Space_Transportation!_initiative_Structures_Materials_Mechanisms_and_Processes_for_Space_Transportation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESA\u2019s FIRST!(Future Innovation and Research in Space Transportation!) initiative Structures, Materials, Mechanisms and Processes for Space Transportation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In April, the European Space Agency\u2019s Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP) launched a new invitation to tender on Structures, Materials, Mechanisms and Processes for Space Transportation. The initiative is part of the Future Innovation and Research in Space Transportation, known as FIRST! The invitation to tender followed from\u00a0 a strong call for ideas that saw 117 ideas submitted from 14 Member States and almost 180 participants taking part in a dedicated pitch day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialisation.esa.int\/2026\/04\/first-structures-materials-mechanisms-and-processes-for-space-transportation-esa-invites-proposals-as-new-itt-opens-after-successful-pitch-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/commercialisation.esa.int\/2026\/04\/first-structures-materials-mechanisms-and-processes-for-space-transportation-esa-invites-proposals-as-new-itt-opens-after-successful-pitch-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s FIRST!(Future Innovation and Research in Space Transportation!) initiative Structures, Materials, Mechanisms and Processes for Space Transportation In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-553199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}