The world's most advanced high-orbit satellites

One on orbit today, many more launching soon.

Before Astranis, satellites came in one of two types: small and inexpensive for low earth orbit, or large and expensive for high orbits. At Astranis we built a new class of satellite— small, powerful satellites for high orbits with the latest in digital processing technology. Astranis has more than 10 satellites on contract for customers around the world, representing more than $1 billion of satellite services sold.

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High orbits matter.

Geostationary orbit (GEO) is the most valuable real estate in the solar system, with over $15 billion of satellites launched to GEO annually, and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) is home to mission-critical space systems like GPS. Why?

High orbits mean low costs.

The higher you go, the fewer satellites you need to provide constant service — all the way to GEO, where a single satellite can carry out a 24/7 mission on its own. Fewer satellites mean lower costs, simpler and cheaper user terminals, and savings that are passed on to end customers.

Thaicom selects Astranis to build and operate THAICOM-9.

High orbits offer critical services.

The device in your pocket (or hand) is currently listening to a constellation of high-orbit satellites — GPS. We’re using our low-cost, high-orbit satellites to enhance GPS resiliency alongside Space Force, ensuring continued delivery of position, navigation, and timing transmissions to warfighters and the public at large.

Astranis selected to design next-gen Resilient GPS satellites.

High orbits are the ultimate high ground.

Space is a contested domain, and Low-Earth Orbit is at risk of catastrophic loss. High orbits offer greater security: by staying above the fray, they are less vulnerable to ground-based threats and offer more decision time to react to contingencies, whether incidental or intentional.

Astranis announces new contract for US government mission.

Building advanced satellites for high orbits is hard.

Astranis has surmounted some incredible engineering challenges to bring this product to market. The radiation environment beyond Low Earth Orbit would fry any normal computer hardware in days or hours. This requires high-orbit satellites to be radiation-hardened, which traditionally drives cost up and timelines out. Launching to higher orbits is also considerably harder. Medium-class rockets can’t take you all the way there, so high-orbit satellites usually need expensive and complex on-board propulsion systems.

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