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Out of 448, the Global Startup Heat Map highlights 5 Top SpaceTech Startups advancing Sustainability
The insights of this data-driven analysis are derived from the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering 2 093 000+ startups & scaleups globally. The platform gives you an exhaustive overview of emerging technologies & relevant startups within a specific field in just a few clicks.
The Global Startup Heat Map below reveals the distribution of the 448 exemplary startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research. Further, it highlights 5 SpaceTech startups that we hand-picked based on criteria such as founding year, location, funding raised, and more. You get to explore the solutions of these 5 startups & scaleups in this report. For insights on the other 443 sustainability solutions from SpaceTech startups, get in touch with us.
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Pale Blue advances Water-powered Space Mobility
Founding Year: 2020
Location: Kashiwa, Japan
Partner for: Green Propellent
Japanese startup Pale Blue brings sustainability in fuel usage by adopting water as the propellant for space mobility. The startup uses patented electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) technology to generate water plasma, which is the power source for its satellite thrusters. Pale Blue’s miniaturized thrusters provide satellites with high thrust or specific impulse, or a hybrid of both. These thrusters empower satellites of many types and sizes, providing non-toxic, sustainable, and affordable space mobility solutions to satellite manufacturers.
OKAPI:Orbits facilitates Collision Avoidance
Founding Year: 2018
Location: Brunswick, Germany
Partner for: Space Situational Awareness (SSA) & Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST)
For a sustainable space environment, collision avoidance with space debris is a priority as per the World Economic Forum (WEF), and German startup OKAPI:Orbits is enabling the same through its AI solution. The startup’s risk monitoring and automated collision avoidance software equip satellites with neural networks that learn from a catalog of space objects. This cloud-based service optimizes risk reduction maneuvers and fuel consumption. The startup also meets the mission-specific needs of small and large satellite operators through its flexible modules and standardized interfaces. These include environmental visualization, maneuver designing, orbit propagation, and determination as well as predicting ground station pass and orbital re-entry.
Space Forge enables In-Space Manufacturing
Founding Year: 2018
Location: Newport, UK
Partner for: Microgravity On-Demand
British startup Space Forge enables in-space industrial manufacturing to reduce unsustainable manufacturing processes on earth. The startup leverages micro-gravity and low-pressure space environment to provide end-to-end manufacturing solutions, thereby preventing industrial operations on earth. ForgeStar Platform, the startup’s reusable satellite vehicle is launched in space for clean industrial manufacturing and is returned back to earth with the final products. Its tool, Aether, predicts landing locations of ForgeStar Platform, other satellites, and space bodies. The startup focuses on manufacturing electronics, alloys, and pharmaceutical materials in space that require complex production methods on earth.
WEO advances Earth Environment Management
Founding Year: 2020
Location: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Partner for: Water Resource Management
WEO, a Luxembourg-based startup, enables earth environment management by analyzing earth observation (EO) data. The startup utilizes AI-powered radar along with optical and thermal imaging sensors aboard satellites to build an accurate map of problem areas on earth. The startup provides insights into industrial and governmental concerns such as sustainable agriculture, climate change, water resource management, natural disasters, and urban forestry.
CisLunar Industries facilitates In-space Metal Processing
Founding Year: 2017
Location: Denver, USA
Partner for: Space Debris Cleanup and Recycling
US-based startup CisLunar Industries builds in-space metal processing systems to reduce space debris. Upon commercializing its solution, the startup aims to equip satellite operators with contactless recycling and reusing of metallic space debris using computer-controlled electromagnetic levitation furnace technology. The startup is repurposing used components into functional parts for providing on-orbit services such as additive manufacturing, metal propellant production, and manufacturing new space structures.
Discover more SpaceTech Startups
SpaceTech startups such as the examples highlighted in this report focus on in-orbit services, solutions tackling climate change, debris cleaning, and artificial intelligence. While all of these technologies play a major role in advancing the space industry, they only represent the tip of the iceberg. To explore more space technologies, simply get in touch and let us look into your areas of interest. For a more general overview, you can download our free SpaceTech Innovation Report to save your time and improve strategic decision-making.
