Before Astranis, satellites came in one of two types: small and inexpensive for low earth orbit, or large and expensive for high orbits. At Astranis we built a new class of satellite— small, powerful satellites for high orbits with the latest in digital processing technology. Astranis has more than 10 satellites on contract for customers around the world, representing more than $1 billion of satellite services sold.

Geostationary orbit (GEO) is the most valuable real estate in the solar system, with over $15 billion of satellites launched to GEO annually, and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) is home to mission-critical space systems like GPS.

Astranis has surmounted some incredible engineering challenges to bring this product to market. The radiation environment beyond Low Earth Orbit would fry any normal computer hardware in days or hours. This requires high-orbit satellites to be radiation-hardened, which traditionally drives cost up and timelines out. Launching to higher orbits is also considerably harder. Medium-class rockets can’t take you all the way there, so high-orbit satellites usually need expensive and complex on-board propulsion systems.

We design, manufacture, test, and operate our satellites at our global headquarters at Historic Pier 70 in California. Our facility previously built warships during the World Wars. Now it builds spaceships.