Satellite Operators

ABS is the GEO operator that refuses to die, now headquartered in Dubai Media City and trading under the self-serious banner “Agility Beyond Space.” The brand refresh came with new…

Project Kuiper is Amazon’s attempt to pretend it is not already a decade late to the satellite broadband party. After years of glossy renderings and PowerPoint schedules, real satellites finally…

Anuvu is what happens when a bunch of private equity guys realize that “inflight entertainment” isn’t really a growth industry but still try to dress it up as a space-adjacent…

Arabsat is the regional GEO operator backed by a Saudi-led consortium of Arab League states. It has been around since 1976 and operates out of Riyadh, with a fleet that…

AST SpaceMobile is what happens when you mix a legitimate technical idea with a Wall Street hype machine. The pitch is irresistible: full 5G broadband straight to your existing smartphone,…

Astranis likes to call itself the company reinventing GEO, which is an ambitious way of saying “we build smaller satellites.” Instead of billion-dollar, bus-sized GEOs that take half a decade…

Avanti is one of those operators that refuses to die quietly. Born in London two decades ago, they were early to gamble on Ka-band from GEO, branded it “HYLAS,” and…

Azercosmos is Azerbaijan’s state satellite operator, created by presidential order in 2010 to make sure the country had its own orbital assets instead of renting capacity from others. It is…

Bharti Space is a London registry entry that Mittal uses to sit in European boardrooms. Journalists call it a “space company” because that sounds exciting. In practice it’s a fund…