Top 9 Startups developing AI for Space

Updated: Mar 01, 2026
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These startups develop AI applications for satellite communication, autonomous spacecraft navigation, space exploration and Earth observation.
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Slingshot Aerospace
Country: USA | Funding: $148.9M
Slingshot Aerospace develops an integrated AI platform for processing real-time and historical satellite data and delivers it to customers via modular APIs, MCP servers or SaaS interfaces. The platform's customers include both space companies requiring data for orbital risk and maneuver planning and ground-based companies for monitoring and planning ground operations (particularly military ops). Slingshot's proprietary sensor network is the world's only day/night optical observation network from low-Earth orbit to geostationary orbit, providing high-frequency observations and tracking in near-real time. The AI ​​model combines historical trends with real-time data to highlight anomalies, detect unexpected events, and identify emerging operational risks early to ensure rapid response and coordination.
2
NewSpace Research and Technologies
Country: India | Funding: $73.3M
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.
3
Kuva Space
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.
4
Danti
Country: USA | Funding: $7.8M
Search engine for all of Earth's data for Defense, Property & Insurtech, Infrastructure organizations
5
Ubotica
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.
6
Earth-i
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.
7
Aadyah Aerospace
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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Qoherent
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.
9
Acme Space
Country: USA
Acme Space is building orbital manufacturing vehicle, uses AI for engineering research and claims to have found a solution to the problem of AI-related hallucinations. Acme Space uses three AI systems that sequentially validate each other's results, while human engineers complete the final design. Acme Space's triple AI system consists of a hybrid sparse dense retriever, based on open-source Llama 3 LLM, a Fourier neuron operator (FNO) trained on complex physics equations and a "system consistency guarantor" that ensures that the solutions proposed by the other two agents are feasible and comply with the constraints set by the human engineers. When all three AI agents are satisfied, Acme Space's engineers step in to complete the work.
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Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)pro