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 1,087 grants
Coordination for Cross-Sector Nuclear Technologies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds coordination of European nuclear research platforms across energy, medicine, space, maritime uses and radiation protection.
Globalstars Call with Taiwan 2026
🇦🇹EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds joint R&D projects between Taiwan and four European countries.
Horizon Euratom: Nuclear Platform Coordination
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €500K project that coordinates Europe's nuclear research network, connecting reactor science with medical and space uses of the field.
Optical wireless communications research and testing facility
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding to establish a national optical wireless communications test facility.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
Industrial Readiness for Affordable Ka-band User Terminals (IRIS²)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to two industrial teams to advance manufacturing readiness for affordable Ka-band satellite user terminals for IRIS² and GOVSATCOM.
D.E.S.I.G.N. for BioE3 Challenge
🇮🇳DBT · India
Pays India's top biotech concept entries ₹1 lakh each month, with grants to build them.
ROSES25: B.2 Heliophysics Foundational Research
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds heliophysics research, though this round now accepts only teams already invited past a closed first-stage proposal.
SBO Security and Defence
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds strategic basic research in security and defense aligned with space, maritime, aviation, and cybersecurity priorities.
EUDIS Non-Thematic SME Open Call
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Backs defense innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across EU member states.
Integration of Galileo PRS receivers on weapon systems and NAVWAR operational centres in military C2
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build Galileo PRS receivers and navigation-warfare software for military platforms and command centres.
Odysseus Programme
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds internationally focused research talent moving to Flanders with comprehensive support.
Take-off Phase 2 — Early-Stage Loan (Vroegefasetraject)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Invests Netherlands firms in knowledge startups building commercialization-ready products through structured financing and growth-oriented milestones.
Japan-UK Joint call for collaborations in Advanced Connectivity Technologies
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Collaborative UK-Japan research in advanced connectivity technologies.
FFG COMET Projects
🇦🇹FFG · Austria
Supports Austrian academia and firms through collaborative innovation projects that turn research outputs into commercial solutions.
Innobooster Grant
🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark
Funds Danish small businesses and entrepreneurs for knowledge based technology development with co investment support.
R&D Tax Credit — Income Tax Credit (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports established United States companies with income tax credits tied to qualified innovation spending.
R&D Tax Credit — QSB Payroll Offset (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports United States small businesses through payroll tax offsets when they fund qualifying innovation activity.
ROSES25: D.8 Habitable Worlds Observatory Precursor Science Investigation
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds early science work preparing for NASA's proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, gated by a mandatory notice of intent.
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.
Schmidt Science Polymaths
🇺🇸Schmidt Sciences · United States
Supports recently tenured faculty with fellowships that enable bold cross-domain research pivots and sustained interdisciplinary leadership.
International Bilateral Fund - Call 3
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Funding for UK-led space projects with international partners.
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.