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From space junk to interplanetary travel: Magdrive’s €9.9 million funding for spacecraft propulsion

EU Startupsby EU Startups
February 25, 2025
Reading Time: 3 mins read
in UK&IRELAND, VENTURE CAPITAL
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Oxfordshire-based Magdrive, a startup creating the next-generation of spacecraft propulsion, today announced its €9.9 million Seed funding round led by pan-European VC Redalpine.

Founders Fund, who led Magdrive’s first funding round, and Balerion, Alumni Ventures, Outsized Ventures, 7percent, and Entrepreneur First also contributed to the round.

CEO and Co-founder Mark Stokes said: “Magdrive represents the next generation of spacecraft propulsion, turning humanity’s grand ambitions in space into a reality with mega constellations, asteroid mining, and in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing; all the building blocks to make us a space faring civilization.”

Magdrive was founded in 2019 by CEO Mark Stokes, a mechanical and deep learning engineer with expertise in hands-on prototyping of robotics and aerospace systems, and CTO Dr Thomas Clayson, a plasma physicist and pulsed power electronics engineer.

According to Magdrive, what sets their electric spacecraft propulsion system apart is its unrivalled thrust and efficiency, which will allow spacecraft to travel farther and manoeuvre with greater precision than ever before.

Magdrive is currently preparing for the first in-space tests of its Magdrive Rogue thruster, set to launch in June this year in collaboration with D-Orbit, providing the rapidly growing satellite constellations market with a high-thrust and high-efficiency solution at low mass and volume.

Redalpine General Partner Harald Nieder said: “Magdrive’s technology has tremendous potential to change the game in spacecraft propulsion to solve big pain points in the status quo, including manoeuvrability and longevity. Propulsion is literally driving the emerging space economy. We are delighted to back Tom, Mark, and the team as they push forward this leap in spacecraft propulsion.”

The funding will enable Magdrive to continue research and development for its innovative high-thrust electric propulsion systems for all sizes of satellites, build a manufacturing facility in the UK, and establish a US office.

Balerion Partner Dan Wallman added: “We’re thrilled to support Magdrive in developing next-generation space propulsion systems. This groundbreaking technology has the potential to play a pivotal role in commercialising space during the post-Starship era.”

Magdrive’s long-term goal is to scale up its propulsion system to support grander ambitions in space, including emerging industries such as in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing, space-based solar power, large scale constellation management, and interplanetary travel.

Magdrive uses solid metal as propellant – this can be sourced and refuelled from recycled ‘space junk’ or other in-space sources, such as asteroid mining, which is more sustainable and will also allow for much more expansive space travel.

Previously, Magdrive raised a pre-Seed round of €1.9 million in 2020 and has also received over €9.5 million of government funding to date, including support from the UK government, UK Space Agency, and European Space Agency.

With high thrust and high efficiency at low mass, the Magdrive’s magnitude improvement in manoeuvrability enables new missions and business models.

Be it high cadence avoidance manoeuvres in congested Low-Earth Orbit, repeated rendezvous and close-proximity operations for satellite servicing and orbital manufacturing, or stochastic movement to make defence satellites untraceable.

Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/02/from-space-junk-to-interplanetary-travel-magdrives-e9-9-million-funding-for-spacecraft-propulsion/

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