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Our latest Cohort

Meet Mission 15: our latest cohort of 10 exceptional companies from 6 countries, working across 24 verticals. These startups represent the top performing Seed to Series A SpaceTech companies in the world right now.

Over the last 13 weeks, they’ve taken part in intensive expert-led workshops and rigorous pitch training to get to where they are today- ready to scale, partner, and lead the next wave of innovation in space.

 

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Viasat  - London Site Visit
Auriga Space - Los Angeles Site Visit
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Planet Labs - San Francisco Site Visit
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Seraphim Space - Los Angeles Happy Hour 
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Airbus Space and Defence - Stevenage Site Visit
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Airbus Space and Defence - Mars Yard

10
COMPANIES
6
COUNTRIES
24
VERTICALS

Ethereal Exploration Guild - India

#DUAL USE    #LOGISTICS       -      UPSTREAM

The Guild is building Razor Crest Mk-1, the world’s first fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle, enabling economic and multi-polarization of access to space launch, with launch costs as low as $350–$2000/kg.

Currently building the world's first fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle, Razor Crest Mk-1. The  Ethereal Exploration Guild is founded to significantly reduce space transportation costs, enable quick scientific growth, and foster a spacefaring civilization.

 


ondo space - mongolia & US

#IOT    #TELECOMMUNICATIONS       -      DOWNSTREAM

ONDO Space is building an SOS communication ecosystem for the most remote, underserved populations around the world.

The ecosystem that consists of IoT cubesatellites, SOS messaging user device, animal tracker, ground stations, and web/app interfaces are all fully developed in house for seamless connectivity and affordability. We built our satellites 3.5x cheaper than global competitors and the rest of the hardware a fraction. We are piloting in Mongolia's harshest environment with UNDP in 2025.

 


Vortx AI - India

#AI    #BIG DATA       -      DOWNSTREAM

Vortx.ai  is solving AI runtime intelligence challenges—hallucinations, biases, and Earth Identifiable Information (EII) risks by leveraging synthetic Earth memories: real-time, multimodal satellite data free from human-induced bias.

 

Ecosmic - Italy

#DUAL USE    #SUPPLY CHAIN       -      UPSTREAM

Ecosmic is an Italian-Dutch startup with the goal to transform space into a sustainable and cost-effective industry.

Our mission is to provide modular, innovative solutions for space operators, enabling them to maximise the effectiveness of their missions. The first challenge that we are solving is space traffic management: with our product SAFE, we enhance the safety of space by offering a service that sends alerts whenever a satellite is at risk of colliding with another satellite or debris. We remove false alerts, and give recommendations on how to act when there is a real threat.

 


LYRASENSE - Germany

#AI    #DUAL USE       -      DOWNSTREAM

LYRASENSE, is simplifying geospatial intelligence by equipping users with AI agents to build and scale earth observation applications.

Today’s geospatial tools fall short for the frontline scientists and decision-makers solving some of the planet’s most pressing challenges - floods, oil spills, wildfires, security and beyond. With modern software architecture and agentic AI, LYRASENSE removes the barriers of technical complexity allowing users to build and scale earth observation applications effortlessly.

 


Pan Galactic - UK

#CYBER SECURITY    #DUAL USE       -      DOWNSTREAM

Pan Galactic is building the secure blockchain and software foundation for the space economy—protecting assets today and enabling data-driven value exchange in orbit tomorrow.
Our solution enables satellite operators, space agencies, and commercial businesses to process, store, and transmit data securely in space, ensuring robust protection against cyber threats and future quantum attacks. At the core of our offering is a quantum-safe blockchain and a secure operating system (GalacticOS), carefully engineered to withstand the unique challenges of space environments. These technologies anchor an innovative ecosystem designed to power a shared compute network terrestrially and in orbit, delivering secure, distributed data storage and trusted digital records.

By providing infrastructure built for resilience, data integrity, and collaboration, Pan Galactic is empowering a new era of trusted and scalable space exploration and commerce.

aerlin - US

#TELECOMMUNICATIONS       -      DOWNSTREAM

Aerlin is a startup developing a built-in OEM smart antenna that will enable satellite data connectivity on consumer cars. This will unlock the full potential of Software Defined Vehicles, and bring continuous connectivity.

Connectivity is currently commonly offered through traditional mobile networks, which do not offer consistent coverage in availability and bandwidth (none, 3G, 4G, 5G), disrupting the experience and access to those services and applications such as telematics, autonomous driving, infotainment, data connectivity, and new kind of subscription-based services and applications. The automotive industry stands to gain significantly from Aerlin’s technology as automakers have been heavily investing in digital related features and services.


LambdaVision - US

#LIFE SCIENCES    #NANOTECHNOLOGY       -     IN-ORBIT

LambdaVision  is developing the first protein-based artificial retina to restore meaningful vision for patients who are blind or have lost significant sight due to advanced retinal degenerative diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).


Planetary Utilties - US

#DUAL USE    #MANUFACTURING       -     IN-ORBIT

Planetary Utilities is making space missions accessible through its modular infrastructure for space.
Our space platform creates a marketplace for a service-based industry in space. Together, we aspire to make the vastness of the cosmos a realm of opportunity. The space industry grew around a business model of building bespoke spacecrafts. With lower cost launchers entering the market, the advantages of modularity in space become affordable for many mission profiles. This creates a shift in the market that Planetary Utilities stands to profit upon. Our modular architecture allows companies to build and deploy new space missions at massive cost savings and increased speed.
 

 


Ravee Optics - US

#DUAL USE    #MANUFACTURING       -     UPSTREAM

Ravee enables ultra-compact inter-satellite laser communication links that will enable high bandwidth data communications from compact satellites. 
Optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) have proven to be a critical component of on-orbit data transfer for communications and in the future will be central to earth observation and on-orbit data processing and storage, the data intensive segments of the space economy. Data traffic on orbit is expected to grow by more than 10x in the next 5 years. Orbital optical networks will form the backbone of this ecosystem, enabling high volume and low latency data transmission. 
 
Ravee Optics will bring OISLs to market that are more than 10x smaller than current conventional optical links and which can enable a “bandwidth as a service” model for data transfer. Our technology will provide high bandwidth, low latency optical communications capability for smaller satellites, dramatically increasing their revenue potential.