Satellite Operators

Sateliot is the Catalan entry in the LEO-IoT sweepstakes, and it markets itself with the same swagger as if it were building a rival to Starlink. In reality it is…

OQ Technology is the rare LEO player that skipped the broadband cosplay and went straight for the boring part that actually pays bills. It wires up sensors and machines with…

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…

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…

Rivada is the kind of company that makes you wonder how much you can get away with by stapling the word “constellation” to a pitch deck. It is not a…

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…

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,…

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…

Telesat is the Canadian operator that somehow managed to look sleepy even in an industry full of GEO dinosaurs. For decades it was the polite middleweight: a few GEOs over…

Starlink is the satellite constellation that turned “LEO broadband” from a punchline into an existential crisis for every GEO operator still clinging to Ku-band. SpaceX has already launched more than…