Satellite Operators

Kepler Communications is a Canadian startup trying to become the orbital backbone for data rather than yet another constellation selling broadband to ships or farms. The idea is simple enough:…

Space42 exists because Abu Dhabi decided it was done renting satellites and wanted a company that looks and acts like a sovereign operator. It was stitched together by merging Yahsat,…

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…

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…

IRIS² is the EU’s attempt to buy itself a spine in space. Officially it’s about resilience, connectivity and security. In reality it’s Brussels writing a €10-plus billion check to the…

OneWeb is the LEO you buy when you need service that behaves like a telecom product instead of a science project. It sells scarcity to people who understand SLAs, not…

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…

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…

Spire has spent the past decade selling itself as the “data refinery” of space, tiny cubesats vacuuming up AIS, ADS-B, and weather signals like a swarm of space Roombas. The…

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…