Top 8 Space Science and Research startups

Updated: Nov 16, 2025
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These startups enable cosmic radiation studies, deep-space exploration instruments, advanced telescope development, planetary atmosphere analysis, space weather monitoring, etc.
1
Catalyx Space
Country: India | Funding: $7.2M
Catalyx Space offers the quickest and most affordable way to deploy experiments and produce in orbit, as easily as launching an app on AWS. Its self-operating space labs and reusable capsules take your ideas to space and securely bring them back. For example companies and governments can use these space labs to observe climate change, track wildlife migrations, test new technologies directly from orbit, perform experiments that gravity on Earth prevents, create novel medicines, create advanced materials, discover innovations in biotech, run AI and data processing in space for instant results. Catalyx Space manages all the infrastructure: satellites, launches, communications, payload returns. Idea to orbit in promised under 6 months.
2
Blue Skies Space
Country: UK | Funding: £3.2M
Blue Skies Space specializes in developing satellites to provide data to the global scientific community.
3
In Orbit Aerospace
Country: USA | Funding: $2M
In Orbit Aerospace is building the infrastructure to support mass manufacturing in space.
4
Lynred
Country: France
Lynred manufactures infrared detectors for the aerospace, defense, and commercial markets.
5
gravityLab
Country: USA
gravityLab provides programmable gravity for research and manufacturing in space.
6
Alatyr
Country: France
ALATYR is building the next generation of orbital infrastructure—robotic space stations that enable strategic European capabilities in space.
7
Odyssey Spaceworks
Country: USA
Odyssey SpaceWorks is a developer and distributor of space research services and solutions.
8
Yuri
Country: Germany
Yuri is a manufacturer of hardware for the aviation and aerospace industry.
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Boris Maslennikov
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