Today we are excited to reveal the six companies selected to join VALAR through the ESA PUSH programme. We rarely announce customer partnerships and when we do, it's because they mark a meaningful step forward in how modern missions approach flight dynamics.
This cohort represents the diversity and ambition of Europe's NewSpace ecosystem: Earth-observation constellations, propulsion technology demonstrations, in-orbit services, free-flying return capsules, and mission-operations innovators. Each team is tackling a different frontier of satellite operations, and together, they form a powerful testbed for the next generation of flight-dynamics automation.
The selected companies for this year's edition are:
🇪🇸 Geosat
Geosat is a European Earth-observation operator with existing satellites in orbit supplying high-resolution imagery to governments and private customers. With operational infrastructure in Portugal and Spain and a roadmap for future satellites, GEOSAT delivers EO products and services across environmental monitoring, security, and infrastructure applications.
🇵🇱 Liftero
Liftero is a propulsion company developing green chemical propulsion systems for small satellites. Their BOOSTER engine — built around a nitrous-oxide and propane bipropellant — offers higher performance than traditional monopropellants while remaining storable and safe for small-satellite platforms. As part of Europe’s expanding propulsion ecosystem, Liftero has been advancing toward on-orbit validation through its RED-5 technology-demonstration mission, which showcases the company’s push toward more capable and sustainable propulsion for future spacecraft.
🇩🇪 Marble Imaging
Marble Imaging is a German Earth-observation company building a very-high-resolution multispectral satellite constellation. Founded in 2023, Marble aims to deliver high-quality EO imagery and analytics for environmental, commercial, and security applications across Europe, positioning itself as a contributor to European data sovereignty. Marble is also part of the MIRI on-orbit demonstration mission — a strategic partnership with Reflex Aerospace and ThrustMe — to validate next-generation satellite technologies ahead of the company’s first planned launches.
🇪🇸 Orbital Paradigm
Orbital Paradigm is a Spanish startup developing reusable free-flying capsules designed for low-acceleration missions, gentle re-entry, and precise landing. The company’s long-term vision is built around repeated flights, high-reusability hardware, and return-capability services for microgravity experiments, in-orbit manufacturing, and cargo return. Their first publicly announced mission — a demonstrator capsule planned for atmospheric reentry and recovery — marks the beginning of this roadmap and positions Orbital Paradigm within a new wave of European companies focused on space-to-Earth return capabilities.
🇩🇰 Space Inventor
Space Inventor is a Danish microsatellite manufacturer known for its advanced, modular small-satellite platforms and in-house development of subsystems, onboard computers, and mission software. Their technology has powered missions across science, Earth observation, security, and connectivity — including the BIFROST surveillance microsatellite. The company was recently selected to build the spacecraft for MANI, Denmark’s first lunar mission, underscoring its growing role as a leading European provider of next-generation microsatellite systems.
🇪🇪 Spaceit
Spaceit is an Estonian company offering mission operations software. Their cloud-native Mission Control System integrates ground-station scheduling, telemetry handling, anomaly detection, and API-driven automation. Spaceit has been involved in multiple ESA programmes and is responsible for the operations of OPS-SAT ORIOLE, an ESA mission combining advanced optical communications and in-orbit experimentation.
Looking Ahead
Over the next year, VALAR will work closely with these six companies to integrate advanced flight-dynamics capabilities into real missions: from orbit determination and maneuver planning to automation and smarter decision-making.
Each collaboration will test VALAR in different operational regimes and we're committed to sharing the insights, lessons, and outcomes along the way.
To the selected companies: welcome.
To the rest of the community: stay tuned, we're just getting started.
