Unlocking Space for Business: Environmental Intelligence and Emissions Grant Call

Key Features

Up to £400,000 each for projects seeking to accelerate the adoption of space-enabled data and services to address environmental intelligence and emissions challenges across the UK economy.

Programme:     UK Space Agency

Award:     Share of up to £400,000

Opens: 20th Oct 2026

Closes: 11th Dec 2026

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Grant Overview

The UK Space Agency’s Unlocking Space for Business programme is looking to accelerate the adoption of space-enabled data and services to address environmental intelligence and emissions challenges across the UK economy.

Grant Scope

The aim of this competition is to stimulate the demand for UK space applications, deliver tangible benefits, reduce barriers to Adoption and build cross-sector partnerships in the UK.

The challenge areas are:

  • Challenge Area 1: Environmental Intelligence for Climate, Nature and Natural Capital
  • Challenge Area 2: Environmental Intelligence for Emissions Monitoring and Verification

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for this competition projects must deliver a clear environmental monitoring benefit and positive economic benefit to UK-based end-user organisations.

Organisations must be a UK registered end-user business including SMEs, leading a consortium with at least one UK space supplier and any additional integrator or delivery partner organisation required to support project delivery.

You must include a least one satellite data domain: Earth Observation (EO), Satellite Communications, Position, Navigation and Timing and may involve technologies such as AI or ML and Quantum technologies. Projects must start at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5+ and must progress to at least TRL 7 by the end of the project.

Projects are expected to start in January 2027 and run for approximately 9 months.

 

Grant Exclusions

The following solutions are out of scope in this competition:

  • Projects that do not involve a clear end-user business.
  • Projects that are primarily research or academic projects with no credible route to operational adoption or commercial use.
  • Projects that do not have a meaningful space-enabled component.
  • Projects that cannot demonstrate a clear user need, business benefit, or pathway to adoption.
  • Projects that are aimed solely at public sector end users.

For further exclusions, see the full competition details below.

Funding Costs

The UK Space Agency intends to award up to £2 million through this competition.

Applicants may request up to £400,000 grant funding per project. Total project costs may be higher where match funding is provided by consortium partners.

Businesses in the consortium can claim up to 70% of their total costs, depending on project type and business size. See the competition document for the exact funding limits.

 

For further information on this competition, please see full details.

Full competition details