Top 10 Startups developing AI for Space

Updated: February 02, 2024

These startups are leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to tackle complex challenges in areas such as satellite communication, autonomous spacecraft navigation, space exploration, and Earth observation.
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Country: USA | Funding: $118.9M
Slingshot Aerospace applies advanced analytics, machine learning, computer vision, and collaborative tools to data from earth and space, providing customers with clarity in complex situations.
2
Country: Finland | Funding: €23.3M
Kuva Space improves life on Earth by using the world's most extensive hyperspectral satellite constellation and artificial intelligence. The company's platform addresses some of the world's most important concerns, including climate change, disaster response, food demand, and safety and security.
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Country: India | Funding: $21M
NewSpace is an aerospace startup that claims to be building next-generation aerospace technology, including unmanned air systems, collective robotics, GPS-denied operations, augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Country: Ireland | Funding: €4M
Ubotica is to deploy advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies on board every satellite. It enables efficient bandwidth usage and provides flexibility to run multiple parallel applications on satellite data ranging from earth observation (EO) and debris tracking to telemetry.
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Country: UK | Funding: £2.7M
EARTH-i geospatial solutions utilise optical satellite imagery from the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation. The company uses satellite imagery to provide high-resolution images and data that people can use for a wide range of applications, including urban planning, infrastructure development, environmental monitoring, and security and defense. It uses Machine Learning for processing Earth Observation data.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.8M
Search engine for all of Earth's data for Defense, Property & Insurtech, Infrastructure organizations
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Country: India | Funding: ₹65M
AADYAH Aerospace is specialising in self-designing satellites, launch vehicle subsystems, space electronics and robotic motion control systems. It aims to revolutionise computer vision, communication, and motion control through the integration of AI.
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Country: USA | Funding: $208K
Exo-Space provides in-orbit edge computing solutions. The start-up’s product, FeatherEdge, is an AI-powered payload for image processing deployed in satellites. It features integrated software for image classification and object detection. It detects clouds and other obstacles and autonomously analyzes satellite images.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $173.7K
Qoherent is accelerating the pace of AI signal processing for radio. Qoherent's AI can improve reliability of space communcations by switching to more resilient waveforms, another part of the spectrum, or another path in the constellation.
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Country: India
Omnipresent Robot Technologies is a robotics, industrial UAV/drone, and video analytics solutions provider. The startup uses computer vision, machine learning and virtual reality to create 3D images from data collected by the moon rover’s cameras and help in navigation.