Leaf Space, founded in 2014, is an Italian ground segment as-a-service (GSaaS) provider that operates a global network of ground stations. They offer services like telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C), and payload data downlink to satellite operators, simplifying satellite communication and data access. Leaf Space partners with organizations like Maritime Launch Services, Azercosmos, Odysseus Space, and Sateliot, and supports ISRO's missions, providing ground station infrastructure for satellite communication. Key services include Leaf Line and Leaf Key, offering both shared and exclusive ground segment access.
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Leaf Space operates a growing global network of ground stations that serves multiple orbits.
Leaf Space Srl provides ground segment services for smallsat operators across a global network of 15 sites.
Leaf Space established successful communications with all 13 satellites from five different customers on SpaceX’s Transporter-3 rideshare mission.
Leaf Space is partnering with Odysseus Space to develop a hybrid ground station network optimized for optical and RF communications.
Leaf Space is partnering with Odysseus Space to develop a hybrid ground station network optimized for optical and RF communications.
Leaf Space and Odysseus Space intend to complete the first hybrid-enabled ground station by early 2024.
The hybrid ground station network being developed by Leaf Space and Odysseus Space will offer satellite operators additional flexibility and backup communication options.
Leaf Space and Odysseus Space intend to complete the first hybrid-enabled ground station by early 2024.
With the new additions and planned activations by 2022-01-01, Leaf Space will be able to support any kind of LEO orbit including sun-synchronous orbit, mid-inclination, and equatorial orbits with at least one pass per orbit.
Leaf Space will operate 15 ground stations globally after the additions.
Leaf Space provides Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) solutions to a growing list of customers.
Leaf Space will operate 15 ground stations across the globe after the additions to the Leaf Line Network.
With the planned activations by 2022-01-01, Leaf Space will be able to support any kind of LEO orbit including sun-synchronous orbit, mid-inclination, and equatorial with at least one pass per orbit.
On 2021-10-14, Leaf Space planned to add five ground stations to its global Leaf Line Network.
Leaf Space’s stations in Bulgaria, Canada, and Australia are designed to provide mid-latitude communications options that decrease the risk of interference, band saturation, and overlapping.
Leaf Space’s new station in Iceland is designed to complement its existing Northern Scotland station to provide high-northern-latitude coverage.
Leaf Space uses a mid-latitude distributed network model to provide higher capacity with the same number of antennas for sun-synchronous, mid-inclination, and equatorial low Earth orbits while reducing interference and satellite overlapping.
With the additional sites, Leaf Space will operate 15 ground stations.
Leaf Space planned further expansion of its network in the first quarter of 2022 to enable communications with satellites in any low Earth orbit.
Leaf Space partnered with Space Machines Company to support the Optimus-1 orbital transfer vehicle launch in 2022.