Manufacturers / Integrators

Terrasat Communications Inc. is the Morgan Hill, California outfit that lives and dies by outdoor block upconverters, mostly for C, X, Ku, and Ka terminals. They’re private, vertically build their…

Rheinmetall is the archetype of a German defense conglomerate that’s been waiting decades for Berlin to finally rediscover its wallet. For years, they made armored vehicles, shells, and the occasional…

Mitsubishi Electric, better known as MELCO in the satellite world, is Japan’s workhorse manufacturer of GEO buses. It is not a flashy brand and rarely makes headlines, but it has…

KVH Industries is one of the last independent names still grinding it out in maritime satcom hardware and services. Based in Rhode Island and founded in the early 80s, it…

KNS is a South Korean antenna manufacturer that has made a living in the shadows of bigger names like Intellian and Cobham. Founded in the early 2000s, it builds stabilized…

Intellian is the antenna shop that managed to turn maritime satcom hardware into a serious global business while avoiding the fate of most niche manufacturers that get swallowed or collapse.…

Northrop Grumman is the other big defense contractor that insists it’s a “space company,” though in practice it’s a Frankenstein stitched together from legacy aerospace brands. They swallowed Orbital ATK…

Lockheed Martin Space is the part of the world’s largest defense contractor that still pretends it’s a “space company” rather than a weapons manufacturer with a side hustle in orbit.…

Satcube is one of those Swedish outfits that proves you don’t need a billion-dollar LEO constellation to be useful, you just need to make ground gear that doesn’t feel like…