Space grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Space grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for launch, satellites, earth observation, in-orbit services and space science from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Space in the United Kingdom come first.
Showing 49-72 of 294 grants
ESA InCubed — Co-funding
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Supports startups commercializing Earth observation by funding service development and downstream applications.
Growth Projects
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Co-funds market-expansion projects for space-enabled solutions already proven in a first market.
Space for Olympic Games
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds space-based digital-transformation services for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
EIC Pathfinder Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
'Proof of market' to improve valorisation and commercialisation of Horizon generated R&I results
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to 25 small consortia EUR 200,000 each to test the commercial exploitation potential of results that already came out of earlier Horizon Europe or Horizon 2020 Cluster 4 projects.
AI Earth Intelligence for Public Decisions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AI tools that combine Earth observation and socioeconomic data for environmental policy, resilience and competitiveness.
Automated Road Transport
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies on satellite-enabled automated and connected road vehicles.
BASS — Digitalisation of the Water Sector
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds water resilience projects using space-enabled data and digital tools.
BASS — Sustainable Wetlands
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds space-enabled wetland and biodiversity projects that strengthen climate adaptation and ecosystem care.
BASS — University of Tomorrow
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Supports educational institutions developing space-enabled learning applications and innovation pilots.
Bioengineering in the Space Environment
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 200,000 euros to study bioengineering business ideas that use microgravity.
Blue Capital
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 75% of a 6-month feasibility study, up to 60,000 euros, for 'Blue Natural Capital' services.
CASSINI Challenges 2026
🇪🇺EUSPA · European Union
Pays EU space startups €100,000 each to turn Galileo, Copernicus or GOVSATCOM data into products.
CASSINI Challenges Prize Contest 2026
🇪🇺EUSPA · European Union
Pays a fixed €100,000 prize to each of 12 winning EU space-tech applicants.
Circular Economy Kick-Start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 75% of a 6-month study, up to 60,000 euros, for circular-economy ideas using space data.
Connected Agriculture Kick-Start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 75% of a 6-month study, up to 60,000 euros, for satellite-connected farming services.
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) evolution: new and innovative processing and methods for future Sentinels and other satellites for reanalyses
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one research project up to EUR 10 million to improve how the Copernicus Climate Change Service turns satellite and historical data into long-run climate reanalyses.
Delivering Earth Intelligence to accelerate the green and digital transition
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds teams scaling up AI-powered Earth-observation products toward real commercial or public-service use in areas like agriculture, water and disaster response.
Digital enablers and building blocks for autonomous space transportation systems
🇪🇺HaDEA · European Union
Funds early-stage digital technology — health monitoring, smart avionics, AI data processing — that makes future launch systems more autonomous.
Digital enablers and building blocks for Earth Observation and Satellite telecommunication for Space solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds up to three research projects, worth as much as EUR 5 million each, to build digital technologies that make European satellite communication and Earth observation systems work better and connect to terrestrial networks.
Digital solutions for space transportation autonomy — targeting demonstration
🇪🇺HaDEA · European Union
Funds on-ground or in-orbit demonstration of structural-damage detection and thermo-mechanical monitoring for reusable launch systems.
Digital Supply Chain
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Backs space-enabled digital solutions for tracking sensitive and food supply chains.
Digitising Water Resilience - Acting on Water Stress in Basins
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Zero-equity co-funding for space-enabled water-resilience monitoring in stressed river basins.