Space grants
Explore grants for space companies. This directory brings together funding for launch and propulsion, satellites and constellations, earth observation, navigation, in-orbit services and space science, from space agencies, research councils and commercial space programs.
Showing 1-24 of 1,088 grants
Research Ireland – Defence Innovation Challenge
🇮🇪Research Ireland · Ireland
Funds Irish research teams up to €220,000, with a €1 million prize for the top defence solution.
France-Taiwan Innovation Partnerships Call
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French and Taiwanese companies developing joint R&D projects through coordinated national innovation aid.
BASS Kick-start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled applications in agriculture, climate monitoring, and transport innovation.
Schmidt Science Polymaths
🇺🇸Schmidt Sciences · United States
Supports recently tenured faculty with fellowships that enable bold cross-domain research pivots and sustained interdisciplinary leadership.
NSF SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups demonstrating scientific feasibility of novel science and engineering innovations.
NSF SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups extending proven early projects into substantial technology development.
NSF STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups partnering with nonprofit research institutions for early-stage feasibility studies.
NSF STTR Phase II
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech projects that continue with nonprofit research partners after successful initial feasibility work.
International Bilateral Fund - Call 3
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Funding for UK-led space projects with international partners.
NSF SBIR/STTR Fast-Track Pilot
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Supports United States deep-tech startups through a combined early and continuation development route.
DURIP (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports United States universities acquiring major research equipment for defense-relevant research capabilities.
NASA ROSES — Science Mission Directorate Omnibus
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds a broad United States NASA Science Mission Directorate package across multiple science and mission areas.
Scottish Inward Investment Catalyst Fund
🇬🇧Scottish Government · United Kingdom
Pays Scottish academic partners so non-Scottish firms can trial R&D collaboration.
ROSES25: C.4 Planetary Science Enabling Facilities
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds the shared facilities and instruments planetary-science research depends on, reopened this year after a year off.
ROSES 2025: C.2 Solar System Science
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds research on planets, moons and other solar-system bodies, accepted on a rolling basis with periodic cut-offs for review.
National Space Innovation Programme - Call 3
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Co-funded R&D for UK space technologies, applications and services
MPS Astronomical Sciences Research Programs (MPS Astro)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds astronomy research, instrumentation and new approaches through one door — a $100 million pool.
Plasma Physics
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds the physics of plasma — magnetised, high energy density, low temperature, dusty and ultra-cold — with 25 awards expected.
BASS — Wildfires
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds space-enabled wildfire monitoring programs improving response, prediction, and ecosystem safety.
Take-off Phase 1 — Feasibility Study (WO)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch academic entrepreneurs turning innovative ideas into commercially viable feasibility-focused technology studies.
AFOSR YIP
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports early-career researchers in the United States through long-term federal science initiatives.
EIC Accelerator — Short Proposal
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.
Platforms and end-products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays European defence-industry consortiums to expand EU production capacity for platforms and end-products such as armoured vehicles, aircraft, radars, naval systems and satellite payloads.
Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research on the upper atmosphere — from the middle atmosphere through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere.