Space Tech Startups

Space Redi builds mission planning tools for complex space missions, drawing on expertise in bioastronautics and mission control operations. The company serves the space industry with software and engineering support.

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SSCL provides independent third-party advisory and consulting services to defence and security stakeholders, focused on space operations for commercial, civil, and national security users. Its work covers operational research, capability-based planning, modeling and simulation, and concept development across the aerospace, near-space, and space domains.

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Space Tango develops automated platforms for research and manufacturing in microgravity environments, operating facilities on the International Space Station and other off-Earth locations from low Earth orbit to lunar missions. The company enables space-based tissue engineering, materials creation, and health research aimed at accelerating therapies and strengthening supply chains.

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Space Alpha Insights builds SAR-XL satellites that combine X and L radar bands to capture high-resolution Earth observation data, using on-board AI for in-orbit processing and near-real-time object detection. Paired with a predictive analytics platform, it delivers remote sensing data to the security, agriculture, insurance, infrastructure, environmental, and logistics sectors.

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Space Capital is a venture capital firm investing in the space economy, covering GPS, geospatial intelligence, and satellite communications. It authored the book 'The Space Economy' and created investment frameworks (GPS, GEOINT, and SatCom Playbooks) used by financial firms and governments.

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SpaceChain builds space-based security and key-management infrastructure for the global financial industry, offering products such as Tethys for secure digital banking, satellite mission design and manufacturing, and blockchain-integrated satellite payloads. It combines fintech and space expertise to provide secure infrastructure, SaaS, and IT consulting for clients in the US, UAE, UK, and EU.

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Space Channel is a web platform that aggregates space-related data and media, including live ISS telemetry, launch tracking, satellite and orbital traffic monitoring, space weather, lunar and planetary tracking, NASA image archives, and UFO/UAP news. It offers dashboards, live TV/radio, and an intelligence feed for space enthusiasts.

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Spacedock builds AI-powered, genderless docking connectors that let space systems securely berth, dock, and transfer power, data, and fluids, enabling modular interoperable orbital infrastructure. The connectors also act as edge AI compute nodes for diagnostics, cybersecurity, and mission optimization to support satellite servicing, refueling, and resupply logistics.

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SpaceFund is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in space-industry startups, focusing on space transportation, critical components, supply chains, and commercial space infrastructure while avoiding traditional aerospace. It also produces ongoing research on the space startup ecosystem covering market size, financing, and exits.

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Space Markets operates a marketplace for the orbital economy, offering Event Markets that price and hedge mission risk (launch windows, deployments, capacity milestones) as Yes/No contracts settled in USDC on Base, and Asset Leasing Markets that connect infrastructure operators with teams needing verified capacity, with payment released after delivery is confirmed. It serves teams supplying, buying, financing, and building orbital infrastructure across launch, communications, compute, power, and lunar operations, and supports specialized agents that discover capacity, evaluate risk, and coordinate programmable settlement.

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SpacePharma builds miniaturized labs using microfluidics-based lab-on-a-chip technology to enable research in microgravity. Its platform is aimed at researchers seeking results that cannot be achieved in Earth-based settings.

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SpacePoint delivers hands-on space education programs that teach students to build, integrate, and test real CubeSat satellite systems, ranging from short introductory workshops to multi-month educator training programs. It serves schools, universities, and institutions across the UAE and also sells satellite kits and educational hardware through its Ground Station store.

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Space Protocol develops a decentralized operating system for space operations that provides real-time sensor calibration, satellite positioning, and orbital compliance monitoring. The platform enables autonomous satellites to sense, share, and react while delivering trustless data verification and risk quantification for space operators and defense agencies.

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SpaceRake develops small form factor laser (optical) communication technology for connecting satellites, drones, and similar platforms. The company applies expertise in laser communications, complex systems-of-systems, and artificial intelligence.

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SpaceTenna develops low-power phased array antenna technology for adaptive beam forming from space, aimed at converting LEO satellites into adaptive beam forming systems at lower power and cost. It builds adaptive RF payloads for space applications, targeting satellite internet and antenna manufacturers, based on its parent company NexTenna's antenna technology.

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SPiN designs and manufactures modular satellite components and provides satellite design services for space manufacturers, reducing design and production costs through its MA61C universal adapter and model-based system engineering methodology.

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Spiral Blue builds LiDAR Earth observation satellites to provide high-resolution data for national security, disaster response, climate mitigation, and insurance applications. The company develops the Space Edge Computer, a spacecraft payload, with multiple units already operational in orbit.

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Star Signal Solutions provides space traffic management and collision avoidance monitoring for commercial satellites and orbital activities. The company protects orbital space debris prevention to maintain the viability of satellite services that support global weather, navigation, finance, and disaster response systems.

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Starburst is a global accelerator dedicated to Aerospace & Defense startups, providing acceleration programs, consulting missions, private pitches and events. It connects startups with industrial partners and allied governments through a team present in nine countries.

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Starburst is an aerospace and defense innovation organization that combines a startup accelerator, strategy consulting, and venture investing to support companies from startup to Fortune 500. It advises aerospace firms and invests in deep tech areas such as electric flight, autonomous drones, urban air mobility, and national security.

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Stellant Systems designs and manufactures high-power RF amplification systems and components, including solid-state power amplifiers, traveling-wave tubes and amplifiers, klystrons, magnetrons, microwave power modules, and propulsion systems (XIPS). Its products serve defense, space, and industrial applications.

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Stellar provides multi-network orchestration that combines cellular and satellite networks to close connectivity gaps and maintain uptime. It serves businesses and institutions across use cases such as autonomous medical drones and industrial manufacturing connectivity.

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Sternula operates a fleet of micro satellites in Low-Earth Orbit to provide global VDE-SAT connectivity based on satellite AIS 2.0, serving maritime authorities and the maritime industry. It positions itself as a commercial provider of satellite-based ship communications, with its first satellite operational in early 2023.

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Stoke Space develops Nova, a fully and rapidly reusable rocket, along with a reusable upper-stage vehicle for on-demand access to orbit and in-space operations such as asset capture, repositioning, and cargo logistics. The company runs vertically integrated design and manufacturing of its rocket engines, structures, and avionics from its own headquarters and test facility.

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