Top 26 Space startups in UK
Jul 05, 2026
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Funding: $1.7B
Virgin Galactic is Richard Branson's company that develops commercial spacecraft and offers suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Its spacecraft are launched from the air from beneath a carrier aircraft. After launch, the spacecraft travels another hundred kilometers, providing tourists with a weightless experience for several minutes. At the end of the flight, the capsule carrying the tourists descends via parachute. The company has already completed dozens of successful launches. A ticket for a space tourist costs approximately $750,000.
Virgin Galactic is Richard Branson's company that develops commercial spacecraft and offers suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Its spacecraft are launched from the air from beneath a carrier aircraft. After launch, the spacecraft travels another hundred kilometers, providing tourists with a weightless experience for several minutes. At the end of the flight, the capsule carrying the tourists descends via parachute. The company has already completed dozens of successful launches. A ticket for a space tourist costs approximately $750,000.
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Funding: $4.7B
OneWeb is building a space-based communications network that delivers high-speed, low-latency internet access.
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
Inmarsat is a mobile satellite communication service provider that aims to power global connectivity services. Acquired by Viasat
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Funding: $163.1M
Orbex is an innovative space startup developing small payload reusable rockets.
Orbex is an innovative space startup developing small payload reusable rockets.
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Funding: $100M
AALTO HAPS develops the AALTO Zephyr, a solar-powered HAPS for global 5G connectivity from the stratosphere.
AALTO HAPS develops the AALTO Zephyr, a solar-powered HAPS for global 5G connectivity from the stratosphere.
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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.
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: £41.3M
Satellite Vu develops “the world’s thermometer”: a satellite constellation capable of monitoring thermal emissions around the world.
Satellite Vu develops “the world’s thermometer”: a satellite constellation capable of monitoring thermal emissions around the world.
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Funding: $51M
Space Forge allows to produce super materials in space that are impossible to create on Earth. In particular it'is using space-derived crystal seeds to grow ultra-high quality semiconductor substrates. It's operating own world-first reusable, returnable orbital manufacturing platform (ForgeStar) and provides microgravity-as-a-service for manufacturing on low Earth orbit. The space environment offers a unique set of environmental conditions that are hugely beneficial for certain processes: vacuum, lower ambient pressure, weightlessness, near-zero temperatures. Rapid, reliable and returnable vehicle to harness the space environment for your needs. The company has also developed return system thatl brings precious cargo back to Earth gently, with no shock on landing in an innovative vehicle with a precision engineered capture and recovery system.
Space Forge allows to produce super materials in space that are impossible to create on Earth. In particular it'is using space-derived crystal seeds to grow ultra-high quality semiconductor substrates. It's operating own world-first reusable, returnable orbital manufacturing platform (ForgeStar) and provides microgravity-as-a-service for manufacturing on low Earth orbit. The space environment offers a unique set of environmental conditions that are hugely beneficial for certain processes: vacuum, lower ambient pressure, weightlessness, near-zero temperatures. Rapid, reliable and returnable vehicle to harness the space environment for your needs. The company has also developed return system thatl brings precious cargo back to Earth gently, with no shock on landing in an innovative vehicle with a precision engineered capture and recovery system.
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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.
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: $25.9M
Revolutionary production equipment for the manufacturing of advanced carbon fibre composite parts.
Revolutionary production equipment for the manufacturing of advanced carbon fibre composite parts.
