Satellite Operators

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…

Qianfan, also branded as Thousand Sails or the G60 constellation, is China’s state-backed attempt at a Starlink-style broadband network. It is run through Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology, with backing from…

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…

Russian Satellite Communications Company is Moscow’s state-owned GEO operator, founded in the Soviet era and still running the orbital backbone for Russia’s broadcasters, telecom providers, and government networks. It manages…

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…

Satellogic is an Earth observation company from Argentina that has spent the past decade trying to prove that low-cost optical imaging can scale into a viable business. Founded in 2010,…

SES is what happens when the satellite industry wears a suit, combs its hair, and tries to convince everyone it’s not worried about Starlink. Headquartered in Luxembourg (which is apparently…

Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology, or SSST, is the company behind China’s Qianfan constellation. It was founded in 2018 with money from the Shanghai municipal government and the Chinese Academy of…

Sidus Space is the Florida microcap that insists it’s a “full tech-stack” space company while still living off a thin cocktail of smallsat ops, contract manufacturing, and optimistic slideware about…

Sky Perfect JSAT is Japan’s hybrid beast of a company: half satellite operator, half pay-TV platform. It was born out of consolidation in the early 2000s when Japan’s private satellite…