Space Tech Startups

AIRMO develops satellite-based methane measurement technology for detecting methane emissions with precision and global coverage. The company serves energy operators and provides commercial monitoring solutions across Europe, the Middle East, and other continents.

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Ampaire develops hybrid-electric propulsion systems for aircraft, with the AmpDrive technology deployed across multiple aircraft types to reduce fuel consumption, maintenance costs, and noise emissions. The company targets the aviation industry with technology designed for scaling from current hybrid-electric operations to future mass-market electric aircraft.

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Antaris offers a cloud-based platform for designing, simulating, and operating satellite missions and constellations, supporting any payload, bus, or mission architecture. It serves government and commercial satellite operators looking to reduce time and cost of getting to orbit.

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AnySignal builds a software-defined, full-stack RF platform providing communications, radar, and sensing across space, land, air, and sea domains. Its systems target defense and space missions, offering resilient, jam-resistant links and space-grade hardware for operations in contested environments.

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Aptos Orbital develops a hardware device that integrates computing, communications, and cloud connectivity for satellites and spacecraft in low Earth orbit. The product enables edge AI processing, persistent global communications, and integration with major cloud providers.

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Basalt operates managed satellite constellations controlled by artificial intelligence, serving private companies and government agencies that lack aerospace expertise and want to collect and stream satellite imagery and data to their devices.

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Cascade is building modern ground-station infrastructure to provide deep space communication capacity for commercial space missions, using arrays of smaller dishes rather than single large antennas. It aims to offer an alternative to the oversubscribed Deep Space Network, with new capacity planned to come online in 2027.

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Citra develops modular sensing and software solutions for detecting, tracking, and identifying orbiting objects in space. The company serves space operators and stakeholders requiring situational awareness for safe and sustainable space operations.

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ClearSpace develops in-orbit servicing technologies for satellite disposal, inspection, and life-extension, serving both institutional and commercial space missions. Founded in Switzerland and headquartered in Luxembourg, it works with agencies such as ESA on active debris removal and satellite life-extension missions across Europe.

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Enhanced Radar develops aviation-grade AI training datasets for pilot-controller communications, with end-to-end quality control from data collection through labeling. The company serves aviation safety and efficiency applications.

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Epic Aerospace builds Orbit Transfer Vehicles (space tugs) that enable satellites to be deployed to any orbital destination from shared launch vehicles and to move within space. The company provides infrastructure and end-to-end support services for satellite missions.

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Ethos Space develops technology to build and operate spaceports and infrastructure on the Moon using in-situ lunar resources, including construction material (Durandal), onsite propellant production (Prometheus), and materials for space-based data centers. The company also publishes research reports on lunar and planetary resources such as silicon, water, critical minerals, and helium-3.

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Farcast develops advanced satellite communication user terminals with flat panel phased array antennas that electronically track satellite movement for reduced size, weight, power, and cost. The company serves mobile users and fixed applications requiring satellite internet connectivity globally.

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Firefly Aerospace launches, lands, and operates space systems spanning Earth orbit to the Moon and cislunar space, serving customers such as commercial companies, NASA, and the U.S. Space Force. It develops the Alpha and Eclipse launch vehicles, Blue Ghost lunar landers, and Elytra orbital vehicles for payload delivery and in-space services.

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Gamaspace develops drag sails and solar sails for spacecraft deorbiting and deep space exploration, enabling efficient orbital decay and propulsion using solar energy.

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Gravitics is a space company developing infrastructure for orbital and space station modules. The page presents its leadership team and key investors.

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ISPTech develops propulsion systems for spacecraft in the NewSpace sector, using non-toxic propellants, standard parts, and additive manufacturing to lower cost. Its products serve space missions and vehicles requiring in-space mobility and transportation.

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JetPack Aviation designs and builds turbine-powered micro VTOL aircraft, including jetpacks, developing everything in-house from mechanical to flight systems. The company has produced VTOL aircraft featured in films, commercials, and air races.

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LambdaVision develops a protein-based artificial retina designed to restore vision for patients blinded by advanced retinal degenerative diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. The implant uses proteins similar to the visual pigment rhodopsin to mimic the light-absorbing function of damaged photoreceptor cells, and its manufacturing leverages space-based production.

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Locus Lock designs software-defined GNSS receivers for accurate positioning in complex environments including deep urban, contested, and dynamic platforms for defense and commercial applications. The technology provides high precision, configurability, and security against spoofing and jamming.

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Longshot is developing reusable ground-based acceleration infrastructure that shifts more launch energy and systems onto the ground using compressed-light gas acceleration, aiming to lower the cost of hypersonic testing and space access. It serves defense and aerospace teams that need faster, more affordable high-speed system testing and a long-term pathway for delivering non-human cargo to Low Earth Orbit.

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Made In Space, Inc. develops 3D printing and manufacturing technology for use in space, having built the first 3D printer to manufacture an object in orbit through a collaboration with NASA. The company works in the space manufacturing and additive manufacturing sector.

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Messium uses satellite hyperspectral imaging (160 wavelengths at 5m resolution) and AI trained on lab samples to measure crop nitrogen levels and generate variable-rate fertiliser application maps. It serves arable farmers, particularly wheat growers, with daily nitrogen recommendations optimised for protein targets, yield, and reduced waste.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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