Scope and limits

This is grant funding for component- and study-level R&D (TRL 1-6 at project start, per the competition notice, SRC-298), not funding for a full-scale demonstrator or an operational system; one of the three awards' recipients (Space Solar Engineering Ltd) is a named partner in the later RAF036/2425 study, and its other partner, Imperial College London, is named in the CASSIE project description and holds its own GBP 295,194 award (SRC-076 PDF p.2; SRC-297), so the three awards should be read as one converging design lineage receiving sustained support, not as three independent validations of merit. The figures are announced award amounts, not disbursement; DESNZ's final report gives the SBSP innovation programme's NZIP final spend as GBP 5.4 million (SRC-325 PDF p.59, printed p.57), a different quantity that must not be merged with this sum. The next page of the same report (SRC-325 PDF p.60, printed p.58) describes a GBP 5.5 million programme, GBP 3.3 million from the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio and GBP 2.2 million from the UK Space Agency, awarded to eight organisations; the two pages do not reconcile GBP 5.4 million of NZIP spend with GBP 3.3 million of NZIP funding.