We announce the four winning companies of the European-Japanese Space Startup Competition 2024, willing to forge powerful partnerships and innovate within the space industry.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of our ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) network, we look forward to expanding the reach of European space startups and scaleups globally. As a reward for their achievements, the winning companies will receive a sponsoring to attend the Nihonbashi Space Week 2024, one of Asia’s largest space-related business gatherings. The winners will be accompanied by representatives from the European Space Agency (ESA).
This competition identified the most promising European space startups with potential business cases for the Japanese market or collaborative projects with Japanese partners.
The winners of the competition
Prometheus Life Technologies (Switzerland): Prometheus Life Technologies is a start-up coming out of the University of Zurich, licensing proven technology to produce high quality human tissue organoids in microgravity, for use as a model in biological testing, and in regenerative medicine.
Kreios Space (Spain): Kreios Space develops an Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion (ABEP) system for satellites. This technology is the only one that enables satellites to operate in Very Low Earth Orbits (VLEO – below 300 km) for long periods, reducing fuel dependence and enhancing performance for Earth observation and telecommunications.
SENSmetry (Lithuania): SENSmetry offers products & services for model-based systems engineering and risk management across the entire system lifecycle. SENSmetry is a ‘systems-as-code’ company behind ‘SysIDE’, a leading open-source SysML v2 textual editing & analysis tool. We unite model-based Systems, Software, and Data & AI engineering through an interdisciplinary approach and precise machine-readable specifications.
Spacemanic (Slovakia): Spacemanic is a turnkey nanosatellite mission provider and a CubeSat components manufacturer. Specializing in design and development, the company uses plug-and-play methodology to accelerate nanosatellite missions from concept to launch. Flight-proven subsystems empower scientific and academic institutions, technology companies, and private customers to achieve their space-based dreams.
