GATE Space has secured €6.3 million in EU grants and equity funding through the EIC Accelerator.
The company’s propulsion system is set to launch on BeaconSat, Austria’s first military satellite, in February 2027.
The Vienna-based startup is also developing hardware for ASTRAL, Europe’s first in-orbit refuelling mission.
Most stories about satellite funding focus on getting payloads into orbit. GATE Space’s recent funding, however, is about what happens after satellites arrive: detecting radio interference that adversaries use to jam and spoof GPS and Galileo signals from far above Earth.
The Vienna-based startup has now received €6.3 million in grants and equity from the European Commission’s EIC Accelerator, one of Europe’s most selective deep-tech funding programs, to prepare its propulsion hardware for this mission.
