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 1,088 grants
Earth Observation Missions and Technology Innovation Call 1
🇬🇧UKSA · United Kingdom
Early-stage Earth Observation satellite instrument and hardware development
EDF Development Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds defence technology validation and prototype demonstration across digital transformation, air defence, and space integration.
EDF Research Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds collaborative European defense research consortia delivering disruptive solutions across security, space, and quantum technologies.
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 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.
ESA VDES Arctic System Study
🇩🇰UFM · Denmark
Invests research teams and institutions for ESA VDES Arctic System Study in space technology and defense innovation.
EU-Japan cooperation on the exploitation of Quantum Space Gravimetry data
🇯🇵European Commission · European Union
Funds one EU-Japan research project up to EUR 500,000 to prepare scientists on both sides to exploit data from a future Quantum Space Gravimetry mission.
EUDIS (Disruptive Technologies and SME Calls)
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Supports small and medium defense innovators across Europe through development calls, coaching, and early-stage consortium opportunities.
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.
European Defence Fund — Work Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds collaborative defense research across aerospace, cyber, robotics, AI, and space.
European Startup and Scaleup Hubs pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a pan-European network of 10-18 startup and scaleup hubs that can pass on up to EUR 60,000 per deep-tech startup for cross-border scaling support.
Expression of interest: Japan-UK joint call for collaborations in Advanced Connectivity Technologies
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Joint UK-Japan research partnerships in advanced connectivity technologies.
FinTech
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled financial-technology services.
Food Security
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for satellite-enabled food-security services.
Future Internet Kick-Start
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds Kick-start studies exploring space-enabled Future Internet applications.
Game-Changing Innovation for European Launch Solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds up to three teams, EUR 5-7 million each, to push mid-maturity launcher propulsion breakthroughs like staged combustion, hybrid, aerospike or autophage engines toward flight readiness.
Game-Changing Innovations for European Launch Solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Awards five prizes of EUR 950,000 each to low-maturity, breakthrough innovations anywhere in the access-to-space supply chain, short of a complete launch solution.
Global Challenge Lab
🇬🇧Imperial Enterprise · United Kingdom
Offers a virtual innovation sprint supporting teams building practical solutions through structured mentoring and milestone-driven challenges.
Globalstars Call with Taiwan 2026
🇦🇹EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds joint R&D projects between Taiwan and four European countries.
GlobalX Challenge 26.2: Naval Southern Hemisphere Space Weather and Plasmas (NSHSWP)
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds a fast test of one applied plasma or space-weather theory for Navy operations in the Southern Hemisphere.