Starlab Space LLC was awarded $15 million, the highest amount awarded to a commercial space company to date, by the Texas Space Commission as part of their Space Exploration and Aeronautics Research Fund […]
Grant Funding
Raising cash should be easier in 2025
By Chris Forrester More than one panelist during the February 4 opening day of the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View has talked about the need to raise cash. The topic […]
$1.23 million NASA grant goes to Penn State College to improve AI satellite weather forecasting
A team led by a Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) researcher last month received a two-year, $1.23 million grant from NASA to improve atmosphere and ocean […]
UK Space Agency launches million£ grant to Orbit Fab
The UK Space Agency has awarded Orbit Fab a £1.3 million Major Project grant under their National Space Innovation Program — this grant will fund the design of a high-pressure […]
NASA tech grants to advance Moon to Mars space exploration
NASA has awarded nearly $1.5 million to academic, non-profit, and business organizations to advance state-of-the-art technology that will play a key role in the agency’s return to the Moon under […]
NSF awards GuardianSat™ an STTR PHASE I grant
America’s Seed Fund has awarded GuardianSat™ a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) — this grant will advance the development of the […]
Astroscale UK receives grant to strengthen UK-Japan collaboration in space
Recently, Astroscale UK, in partnership with Astroscale Japan, Orbit Fab and CGI, was awarded a Phase 1 UK Space Agency International Bilateral Fund grant — this grant aims to foster […]
Oxford start-up receives Innovate UK grant
Satraka Ltd. has been selected as a recipient of Innovate UK’s Transformative Technologies Grant. The highly competitive grant allows SMEs across the country to apply for a share of £20 […]
Canada’s Space Agency selects Canadian student teams who build and launch their own small satellites
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded nine grants representing $3.15 million under the CubeSats Initiative in Canada for STEM (CUBICS) to Canadian post-secondary institutions to advance space science and technology while training the […]
NASA’s 2023 TechFlights Solicitation
NASA’s 2023 TechFlights solicitation is now open — offered are funding opportunities to researchers from U.S.-based industry, academia, and private research institutions to rapidly test technologies on commercial suborbital vehicles […]