China Satcom
China Satellite Communications Co., Ltd. (China Satcom) is the state’s satellite operator, sitting under CASC and functioning less as a business than as an arm of national telecom strategy. It…
Satellite Operators
The landlords of the skies. They rent you megahertz with fine print that makes your lawyer smile. Some even pretend to be tech companies.
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E-Space
E-Space is Greg Wyler’s latest constellation project, launched in 2022 after his runs with O3b and OneWeb. The sales pitch is that this will be the “sustainable” megaconstellation, with satellites…
Echostar
EchoStar is what happens when a legacy GEO broadband shop reabsorbs a wounded wireless carrier and then tries to outrun physics, debt, and the FCC at the same time. The…
Es’hailSat
Es’hailSat is Qatar’s state satellite operator, set up in 2010 as part of the country’s push to secure its own broadcast and communications backbone. Its role is straightforward: provide sovereign…
Eutelsat Group
Eutelsat-OneWeb is the industry’s favorite Frankenstein experiment: graft a struggling GEO TV operator to a half-built LEO constellation and hope the two dying business models cancel each other’s weaknesses. Spoiler:…
Geespace / Geesatcom
GeeSpace is the in-house constellation shop for Geely, and GEESATCOM is the network it’s been cranking into orbit to make Geely’s cars and assorted machines talk everywhere without begging terrestrial…
Globalstar
Globalstar is the LEO satellite operator that never quite died. Once the cautionary tale for anyone betting too hard on bent-pipe LEO voice constellations, it’s now in the middle of…
Hispasat
Hispasat was always a small, polite GEO operator hovering over the Atlantic with just enough bandwidth to keep Iberia, North Africa, and Latin America connected. It lived mostly on broadcast…
ICEYE
ICEYE is the Finnish SAR shop that went from scrappy CubeSat tinkerer to the “oh look, another sovereign constellation provider” of choice in under a decade. They sell themselves as…
Inmarsat
Inmarsat is the dignified grandparent of the satcom industry, the one with war stories, expensive suits, and a British accent. Founded in 1979 to provide safety comms for ships at…