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.
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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.
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.
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.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge — 12th
🇫🇷Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Offers deep-tech startup challengers equity-free seed support, mentorship, and investor exposure across sectors and global markets.
Highly automated ATM for all airspace users
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on detect-and-avoid sensors, drone integration, space-launch coordination and robust satellite navigation for ATM.
Horizon Space: Digital Enablers for EO & SatCom
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €3–6M projects on the digital building blocks of satellite comms and Earth observation — payloads, ground processing, interoperable data access.
Horizon Space: EO & SatCom Demonstration Missions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €5–10M consortium projects that mature Earth observation and SatCom technology to flight readiness, ahead of real demonstration missions.
Horizon Space: EU-Based Spaceports
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €10–15M projects building launch pads and ground facilities on EU territory, so European launch providers can fly from European spaceports.
Horizon Space: High-Energy Irradiation Test Facility
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €3–4M project turning a prototype irradiation facility into a booked-beam-time service for radiation-testing Europe’s space chips.
Horizon Space: Radiation-Hard FPGA on 7nm
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one EU project, up to €13M, to build and qualify a radiation-hardened FPGA chip so Europe's space missions stop depending on non-EU suppliers.
Horizon Space: Scientific Analysis of Space Data
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €1.5–2.5M teams mining space-science mission data — astronomy, heliophysics, solar-system exploration — into publications, tools and data products.
Horizon Space: SiC Substrates for GaN MMICs (Phase A)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €6–7M project to industrialise an EU source of semi-insulating SiC substrates — the wafer base for the GaN chips in satellite radios.
Horizon Space: Space Refuelling Interface
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €2–3M projects developing a European refuelling interface — the docking hardware that lets satellites be topped up in orbit.
IAF-PP — Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity (MTC) Domain
🇸🇬A*STAR · Singapore
Funds Singapore research pathways in manufacturing, trade, connectivity, and AI-integrated advanced industrial systems.
IARPA COSMIC
🇺🇸IARPA · United States
Funds United States investigators developing geospatial AI that blends remote sensing with public geolocation feeds.
IIA Track 37 — Horizon Europe Consortium Support
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports Israeli industrial companies joining Horizon Europe consortia by reimbursing proposal development and partner-search activity costs.