Yuri Gravity

Yuri (named after Yuri Gagarin) is a German commercial microgravity services company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Meckenbeuren, Baden-Württemberg. The company designs and operates bioreactors and experiment hardware for biological and materials science research in microgravity, delivering experiments to the ISS via SpaceX Dragon cargo missions. Yuri's target customers are pharmaceutical companies, biotech startups, and academic researchers seeking access to sustained microgravity for cell culture, protein crystallization, and organoid studies.

The company also offers parabolic flight services for short-duration (20-second) microgravity experiments at lower cost. Yuri's commercially-operated model accelerates access compared to traditional ESA/NASA research integration timelines. Investors include the European Space Agency's ESAC fund and private backers interested in the space bioeconomy.