Lodestar Space wins SECP support to advance AI satellite awareness system

London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2025

Lodestar Space has secured funding through the UK Space Agency’s Space Ecosystem Commercialisation Programme, delivered by Space South Central, to accelerate work on its on-orbit sensing system Mithril.

The SECP Sprint R and D grant of GBP 30,000 will pay for integration and testing of a new LiDAR sensor within Mithril’s existing on-orbit sensing suite. Mithril is described as a fully auto