We invented a new class of satellite to unlock the universe to go beyond low-earth orbit.

We built the world’s first small, low-cost systems for high orbits.

Before Astranis, satellites came in one of two configurations: small and inexpensive for Low Earth Orbit, or large and expensive for high orbits. By 2025, we will have ten satellites on orbit, which collectively represent over $1 billion of satellite services sold.

High orbits matter.

Geostationary orbit (GEO) is the traditional home of all space activity, and even today, with the emergence of a booming ecosystem in low-earth orbit, over $15 billion is deployed to GEO annually. Why?

We built the world’s first small, low-cost systems for high orbits.

Before Astranis, satellites came in one of two configurations: small and inexpensive for Low Earth Orbit, or large and expensive for high orbits. By 2025, we will have ten satellites on orbit, which collectively represent over $1 billion of satellite services sold.

High orbits offer critical services, even beyond communications.

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.

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.

High orbits matter.

Geostationary orbit (GEO) is the traditional home of all space activity, and even today, with the emergence of a booming ecosystem in low-earth orbit, over $15 billion is deployed to GEO annually. Why?
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We invented a new class of satellite to unlock the universe to go beyond low-earth orbit.

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We built the world’s first small, low-cost systems for high orbits.

Before Astranis, satellites came in one of two configurations: small and inexpensive for Low Earth Orbit, or large and expensive for high orbits. By 2025, we will have ten satellites on orbit, which collectively represent over $1 billion of satellite services sold.

High orbits matter.

Geostationary orbit (GEO) is the traditional home of all space activity, and even today, with the emergence of a booming ecosystem in low-earth orbit, over $15 billion is deployed to GEO annually. Why?

High orbits means 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 complete a 24/7 mission by itself. Fewer satellites means lower cost, simpler and cheaper user terminals, and savings passed onto end customers.

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High orbits offer critical services, even beyond communications.

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 wins new Phase III contract with U.S. Space Force

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.

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But building low-cost satellites for high orbits is hard.

The radiation environment beyond Low Earth Orbit would fry any normal computer hardware in a matter of hours or days. To operate in high orbits means to make your satellites radiation-tolerant, which traditionally means dramatically over-engineering the parts themselves, or encasing them in thick, heavy shielding. Both of these strategies are expensive to implement.
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In-House Manufacturing
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Low-cost, radiation-tolerant hardware simply didn’t exist. Until we built it.

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Astranis builds the world's most advanced satellites for high orbits. Our first product, MicroGEO, offers dedicated satellite broadband. But small, radiation-tolerant satellites can do far more than comms. With contracts in place with Space Force, NASA, and other government partners, Astranis is working across all higher orbits to support government science, PNT, and communications missions.
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