The boom of the NewSpace market and the continual growth of the small satellite lead to a new whole family of launch concepts: the microlaunchers. The microlaunchers define a whole new frame for Spaceports providing base services, where cost, responsiveness and launch rate are a must to those who aim the future space market. Europe seeks to adapt to this new technological, methodological, and economic scenario. The key concept to this new paradigm is multiplicity: the spaceports target to attract multiple microlaunch concepts available in the market, with their own business cases each, while microlaunch concepts look forward to launching from multiple spaceports seeking a launch rate at a wider range of azimuths that enable their own business plan goals. SAMMBA answer is to endow Spaceport Operators with technologies and methodologies providing standard and modular Base Services (Standard And Modular Microlaunchers BAse services). As a result, SAMMBA contributes to major goal of increasing European competitiveness in access to space, allowing European Spaceports to offer affordable ground services competing technological and economical for the launch services and payload market. The SAMMBA objective is to develop launch base services that enable cost-effective, agile and flexible launch campaigns, empowering future spaceports to operate multiple launch concepts while fitting in the cost and the launch rate targeted in the small payload market. That goal is tackled through main axes: Technological: the development of demonstrators and prototypes based on innovative 4.0 technologies looking forward to their deployment and instantiation at Spaceports in the Strategic Advisory Board (CNES, SCC, ASP, Azores Spaceport, DTA Grottaglie). The consortium of 6 partners from 4 different countries is a combination of guaranteed expertise and know-how on Launch Base systems and operations along with research and innovative capabilities. The technical domains and interests are complementary, covering all project activities Launch-centred vs Service-oriented approach Against the launcher-centred services in the nowadays scenario, SAMMBA approaches the Spaceport operations through a multiple relationship among stakeholders with the objective of enabling a business case through the most standard and flexible scenario. Market-oriented The main outcome of the project is the pitch of the proof-of-concepts technologies at Spaceports and the presentation of a business plan to implement and exploit operational Base Services beyond H2020 call, at that time as an industrial organization with a business–oriented objective.
