National Space Innovation Programme
Details of the UK Space Agency programme that provides co-funding to support the development of innovations with high potential to catalyse investment into the UK space sector.
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About the programme
The National Space innovation Programme (NSIP) supports the development of innovative space technologies by funding projects that may be high risk but have the potential for high returns and a clear target market.
In NSIP’s pilot year (FY20/21), 27 grants were awarded to industry and academic-led project teams across the UK. In FY21/22, NSIP provided additional grant funding to 11 of the pilot phase projects to enable these to continue advancing their innovative products, services and technologies that have application in the space sector. In FY22/23, two projects received a further funding boost to continue their activities under the NSIP pilot programme.
In its current form, NSIP builds on the successes and lessons learned from the NSIP Pilot and the Enabling Technologies Programme, which has funded 41 projects across key technology themes. NSIP funding is targeted at disruptive space technologies, creating a pipeline of innovative projects to support and grow the UK space sector.
NSIP Call 1One supports projects being undertaken by industry, academia, and research organisations across a wide range of innovations within the space sector. This is being delivered in the form of multi-year grants of up to £5£5m, million, which were awarded following an open funding call in FY23/24.
Funding
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Update history
2025-04-16 15:27
Updated with Call 2 info.
2024-07-22 09:30
Updated with new programme information and funding details.
2024-05-23 17:36
Added NSIP Kickstarter Feedback and updated links to closed calls.
2024-01-12 16:40
Updating wording and link text to reflect both Kickstarter and Major Projects calls have now closed to applications.
2023-10-05 17:08
New NSIP funding calls have opened, which has been reflected by adding call to actions for them in the body text of the page.Information about grant recipients have been updated in the 2 HTML attachments, as the previous call closed and we have details about grant recipients.