Top 21 Space startups in UK

Updated: May 08, 2024 | Editor: Boris Maslennikov

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Funding: $4.7B
OneWeb is building a space-based communications network that delivers high-speed, low-latency internet access.
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Funding: $1.8B
Inmarsat is a mobile satellite communication service provider that aims to power global connectivity services. Acquired by Viasat
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Funding: $1.1B
Virgin Galactic is a commercial spaceline that develops commercial spacecrafts.
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Funding: $161.7M
Reaction Engines is next-generation aerospace propulsion developers, home of SABRE air-breathing rocket engine.
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Funding: $109.5M
Orbex is an innovative space startup developing small payload reusable rockets.
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Funding: $62.6M
Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
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Funding: £32.5M
Skyrora is a launch services provider dedicated to delivering small satellites into orbit in a responsive, versatile, eco-friendly manner. Skyrora has also developed an environmentally friendly hybrid rocket engine that can run on solid and liquid rocket fuel.
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Funding: £31.3M
Satellite Vu develops “the world’s thermometer”: a satellite constellation capable of monitoring thermal emissions around the world.
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Funding: £11.6M
OSS Is a space technology business that provides multi-award winning deployable antennas & structures made from proprietary materials.
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Funding: $11.1M
Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.
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Funding: £5M
Sen's vision is to democratize space using video to inform, educate, inspire and benefit all humanity. Sen's mission is to stream real-time videos from space to billions of people, gathering news and information about Earth and space and making it universally accessible.
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Funding: £3.8M
Goonhilly Earth Station is a satellite communication teleport that provides telecommunication services.
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Funding: £3.2M
Blue Skies Space specializes in developing satellites to provide data to the global scientific community.
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Funding: £2.7M
EARTH-i geospatial solutions utilise optical satellite imagery from the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation. The company uses satellite imagery to provide high-resolution images and data that people can use for a wide range of applications, including urban planning, infrastructure development, environmental monitoring, and security and defense. It uses Machine Learning for processing Earth Observation data.
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Funding: $3M
Space DOTS tests materials for space, in space.
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Funding: £500K
Satellite Applications Catapult collaborates with other companies, educational institutions, and government agencies to create state-of-the-art medical, agricultural, and environmental research satellite applications. In particular it provides access to high-resolution methane emissions
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Lacuna Space is a tracking and sensor detection service for space applications and telecommunications services.
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AmbaSat design and build low earth orbit space satellite kits, which are the foundation of a new class of ‘sprite’ satellites.
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WeSpace Technologies develops autonomously flying robotics systems for a variety of lunar surface exploration missions.
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Our organisation unites space engineers and inventors who are about to begin a new era of human hist
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Orbit Boy is a manufacturing company that provides fuel laboratory testing, aviation, and aerospace components solutions.
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com