Satellite Operators

Intelsat used to be the global satcom landlord, the one outfit every broadcaster, airline, and government had to pay rent to if they wanted to move bits through space. Born…

Iridium is basically the stubborn weed of satcom: everyone assumed it would die in the late 90s, but instead it sprouted out of bankruptcy, shrugged off decades of ridicule, and…

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…

Kacific Broadband Satellites is a regional GEO operator built for one purpose: deliver Ka-band broadband to underserved countries across Asia and the Pacific. Founded in 2013 and run out of…

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:…

Lynk sells itself as the company that turned your average phone into a satellite terminal, and for once the hype isn’t total vapor. They really did send texts to unmodified…

Mangata is the constellation startup for people who think the alphabet soup of LEO, MEO, and GEO isn’t confusing enough. Their pitch is a “hybrid architecture” that mixes MEO and…

Measat is Malaysia’s state-backed satellite operator, created in the mid-1990s to support national broadcasting and telecom. It is small compared to the global GEO incumbents but entrenched in its home…

Nilesat is Egypt’s state-backed satellite operator, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Cairo. Its entire reason for being is television. The company runs a small GEO fleet that carries 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…