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European spacetech mapped: 70+ startups reaching for the stars

Your guide to Europe's sprawling space industry, featuring rockets, satellites, space taxis, AI and more

Éanna Kelly and Oshin Narang

6 min read

Space: a lab where new medicines could be discovered; a quarry for exotic materials; a place to store data centres and solar farms; a tourist destination; even a Plan B home for humanity.

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

Oshin Narang

Oshin is Sifted's startup & VC analyst.

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