Guidance

National project and grant recipients 25/26

Updated 19 March 2026

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1. Major Projects

  • Space-based RF Mapping & Tracking Services: When, Where and What? (BAE Systems Applied Intelligence)
  • Advanced Payloads for Global Quantum Networks (Toshiba Europe Ltd)
  • Magdrive Industrialisation and Commercialisation (MagIC) (Magdrive)
  • 550W Ka-Band Solid State Power Amplifier (SSPA) (Filtronic Broadband Ltd)
  • HALEOS – High Altitude Long-Endurance Earth Observation System (B2Space)
  • Ultra-high efficiency, low-cost and fully flexible roll-out  solar blanket (ROLLA) for in-orbit deployment (Lightricity Ltd)

2. Kick Starter

  • PICTS AltNav (University of Strathclyde)
  • SHAR: Scalable High-Power ICP Torch for Assessing Atmospheric Re-entry Emissions and Environmental Impact (University of Southampton)
  • Sapphire Agriculture – Integrated Earth Observations and AI to improve water quality (HR Wallingford)
  • Internal Calibration Radiometers for Next Generation Meteorological Satellites (STFC RAL Space)
  • Sensing NO2 Emissions to Evaluate Net-Zero Initiatives (SNEEZI): instrument hardware field demonstration and relevant environment testing, end-to-end mission simulation, and business case development (University of Edinburgh)
  • Intersatellite Deep Ultraviolet Quantum Keys (University of Bristol)
  • Aqua-Ion (Protolaunch Ltd)
  • AI enabled Satellite Morphological Inference from multidimensional Inverse Synthetic Aperture (ISAR) Data – Aemelia (University of Birmingham)
  • MODRA: MODular Spacecraft Servicing via Robotic Augmentation
  • Refuellable Electric Engine Flatsat (REEF) (Orbit Fab Ltd)
  • Intelligent SPace Arc-welding Robotic Kit: Enabling Autonomous In-Orbit Repair, Manufacturing, and Joining – iSPARK (University of Leicester)
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