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Resilient Space Operations

15 companies in this challenge area

Space domain awareness, satellite resilience, orbital servicing, and space-based capabilities for NATO's newest operational domain.

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Why It Matters for NATO

Space is NATO's newest operational domain. Allied forces depend on satellite communications, GPS, and space-based ISR. Protecting space assets, developing responsive launch capabilities, and achieving space domain awareness are top priorities as adversaries demonstrate anti-satellite capabilities.

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Market Overview

Market Size & Opportunity

Global space economy: $469B. Military space: $52B by 2028. Small satellite market: $7.5B growing at 20%+ CAGR. Space situational awareness: $1.8B. On-orbit servicing: $4B emerging.

Key Trends

Proliferated LEO constellations. On-orbit servicing and refueling. Space domain awareness. Responsive space launch. Debris characterization. Very Low Earth Orbit operations.

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Companies in Resilient Space Operations

Adaptronics

Italy
A versatile, energy-efficient and electro-adhesion based technology for object manipulation

Alba Orbital

United Kingdom
Worlds smallest commercial Earth Observation satellites, to image earth more frequently

Applied Atomics

United Kingdom
Building the mobility network for space - powered by a new propulsion paradigm

BruhnBruhn Innovation

Sweden
Cloud everywhere - decisions before adversaries

Capsule Corporation srl

Italy
Water-based propulsion system to streamline integration, test and deployment of dual use satellites

Deep Space Energy

Latvia
Resilient radioisotope power for satellite manoeuvring and non-kinetic threat defence

Ecosmic

Italy
The operating system for space security

Kreios Space

Spain
Enabling Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) through fuel-free atmospheric space propulsion

Mithril Technologies, Inc.

United States
Software-defined satellite radar for advanced space domain awareness

Neuraspace

Portugal
AI-driven space defence platform for autonomous and secured orbital operations

Space Power Ltd.

United Kingdom
Laser turbocharge any solar panel with or without the sun, wirelessly

Space Solar

United Kingdom
Assembling large modular space structures for next gen situational awareness, power and aperture

Spaceflux Ltd.

United Kingdom
From awareness to anticipation: predictive AI for resilient space operations and strategic advantage

Spectra Defence Limited

United Kingdom
Revolutionising space imaging to enhance understanding of objects and activity in orbit

WarpWare (ATTX Inc.)

United States
Ensuring sustainable access to space through On-orbit debris characterisation