{"id":16413,"date":"2025-07-22T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/16413\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:30:09","slug":"genesis-sfl-secures-e300000-to-develop-gen-re-entry-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/16413\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis SFL Secures \u20ac300,000 to Develop Gen Re-Entry Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Genesis-SFL-Secures-E300000-to-Develop-Gen-Re-Entry-Capsule.webp.webp\" alt=\"Genesis Space Flight Laboratories has secured \u20ac300,000 in pre-seed funding to develop GEN, a spacecraft designed to host and return microgravity research payloads.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4883 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/500;\"\/>Credit: Genesis Space Flight Laboratories<\/p>\n<p>Croatia-based Genesis Space Flight Laboratories has secured \u20ac300,000 in pre-seed funding to begin the development of GEN, a spacecraft designed to carry out frequent autonomous microgravity missions to and from low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The company originated in Slovenia in 2020 as the Genoplant Research Institute, developing the Genoplant Analyzer, a \u201cportable laboratory\u201d for plant diagnostics. In late 2024, the company launched its Genesis Space Flight Laboratories division to begin work on a modular incubator designed to conduct customer experiments in the microgravity environment of low Earth orbit aboard a host spacecraft. The first of these incubators, <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanspaceflight.com\/the-exploration-company-confirms-mission-possible-sold-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MayaSat-1<\/a>, was launched aboard The Exploration Company\u2019s Mission Possible flight, which <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanspaceflight.com\/the-exploration-company-declares-mission-possible-a-partial-success\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">successfully reentered Earth\u2019s atmosphere but ultimately failed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2025, the company established Genesis Space Flight Laboratories as a standalone entity based in \u010cakovec, Croatia. With its founding, the company announced that it had begun work on GEN, a spacecraft intended to enable pharmaceutical research and in-space manufacturing in low Earth orbit, with the capability to then return the experimental payloads to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>On 22 July, shortly after its founding, the company announced that it had secured \u20ac300,000 in pre-seed funding to begin development of its spacecraft. The round was led by Fil Rouge Capital, a Luxembourg-based investment fund focused on early-stage tech startups in Central and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 22 July Genesis Space Flight Laboratories update, it expects to begin early customer payload integration in 2026, with a planned first flight to follow in 2027. The company\u2019s website refers to the inaugural 2027 flight as GEN-11, describing it as a precursor to GEN-111. While not explicitly stated, GEN-11 appears to be a subscale demonstrator of the spacecraft. The mission is expected to validate in-orbit operations, reentry control, the hybrid RETRO-GEN propulsion system, parachute deployment, and capsule recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Genesis Space Flight Laboratories Croatia-based Genesis Space Flight Laboratories has secured \u20ac300,000 in pre-seed funding to begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[10754,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-16413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-genesis-space-flight-laboratories","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}