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 241-264 of 1,087 grants
Commercial Climate Services
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for commercial services that respond to climate change.
Connected Agriculture Kick-Start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 75% of a 6-month study, up to 60,000 euros, for satellite-connected farming services.
Connected Rural Communities Kick-Start
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays up to 64,000 euros for satellite-enabled services connecting rural communities.
Coordinated access to European spaceports
🇪🇺HaDEA · European Union
Funds a study that proposes common rules and best practices so European launch providers can access any European spaceport more easily.
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.
DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026
Global Startup EXPO · Japan
Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.
DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026
Global Startup EXPO · Japan
Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.
DEFRA 6th Call — Defence-Related Research
🇧🇪BELSPO · Belgium
Funds Belgian defence-related innovation in critical technology sectors to strengthen real-world implementation.
DEFRA Space Call
🇧🇪BELSPO · Belgium
Funds Belgian companies doing R&D in defence space capabilities — Earth Observation satellites and Space Situation Awareness systems.
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.
Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Shares a $500,000 prize pool among university-founded startups building dual-use defense tech.
Earth Observation Missions and Technology Innovation Call 1
🇬🇧UKSA · United Kingdom
Early-stage Earth Observation satellite instrument and hardware development
Effective environmental observing systems and associated governance
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AI, digital-twin and IoT tools that make satellite and drone-based environmental monitoring systems cheaper and easier to use.
Enduring Atmospheric Platforms RFP
🇬🇧ARIA · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom atmospheric platform research collaborations focused on resilient high-altitude communication infrastructure.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence Programme (EiR)
🇮🇳IITTNiF · India
Pays up to INR 30,000 a month for 12 months to first-time geospatial-tech founders.
Environmental Crimes
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for satellite services that fight environmental crime.
ESA BIC UK
🇬🇧ESA · Global / Multinational
Backs UK space-tech startups through its incubation programme, applications open now.
ESA Phi-Lab Sweden
🇸🇪RISE · Sweden
Funds space AI initiatives for Swedish companies, universities, and institutes through national collaboration with ESA.
ESA Phi-Lab UK open call
🇬🇧UKSA · United Kingdom
Funds space-enabled sustainability research proposals through ESA Phi-Lab UK's open call.