SWISSto12 is a manufacturer of advanced satellite Radio Frequency (RF) products, payloads, and systems, including the HummingSat, a small geostationary telecommunications satellite developed in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). The company utilizes patented 3D-printing technologies to create lightweight, compact, and high-performance RF products, such as antennas, filters, and waveguides. SWISSto12 partners with major satellite operators, space agencies, and aerospace companies like Intelsat, Inmarsat, Thales, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and SES. The company's products are used in various space applications, including telecommunications, earth observation, and scientific missions.
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Swiss space hardware company Swissto12 raised 16,600,000 EUR in 2019.
Swissto12 is working with several satellite prime contractors that are preparing to launch multiple advanced antennas or signal interconnect systems into low Earth and geostationary orbits in 2019.
Swissto12 completed successful commissioning of the Ka-band antenna feeder assembly it additive-manufactured for NSLSat-1.
NSLComm Co‑Founder and Chief Engineer Daniel Rockberger supports cooperation with SWISSto12 and views 3D-printed RF components as viable for communication payloads on small platforms such as NSLSat-1.
SWISSto12 is working with several satellite prime manufacturers to launch multiple advanced antenna and signal interconnect systems in both LEO and GEO in 2019.
Swissto12 raised the 18.1 million Swiss francs in a Series B funding round announced 2019-08-29.
Swissto12 is working with Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, a Terran Orbital Corp. company, to provide customers dishwasher-size communications satellites for geostationary orbit.
Michael Kalinski and the four other employees in Swissto12’s U.S. office previously worked for SSL, the Palo Alto satellite manufacturer purchased in 2012 by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, now Maxar Technologies.
Additional Swissto12 components have been integrated in communications satellites scheduled to launch to geostationary orbit later 2019.
Constantia New Business, the investment arm of Austrian industrial conglomerate Constantia Industries that led Swissto12’s Series A round, provided additional Series B funding.
Swissto12 raised 18.1 million Swiss francs ($18,440,000).
SWISSto12 launched advanced payload products for mini-GEO satellites on 2019-08-29.
Swissto12 will use its Series B funding to industrialize further its processes and expand production capability to address business cases like constellations and overall commercial demand.
Swissto12 established the U.S. subsidiary in Santa Clara and the Israel office to increase its capacity to serve U.S. clients and to increase its overall payload and systems engineering capabilities.
SWISSto12 closed a CHF 18.1 million (USD 18.5 million) Series B financing round.
SWISSto12 supplied a Ka band antenna feed chain for flight onto the NSLSat-1 telecommunications satellite due for launch at the end of 2018-10-01.
SWISSto12 and NSLComm began collaborating in 2017 to jointly design an RF sub-system.
RUAG Space and SWISSto12 partner to supply active phased array antenna products for satellites from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit.
RUAG Space and SWISSto12 signed a partnership agreement at World Satellite Business Week in Paris, France on 14 September 2018.
RUAG Space and SWISSto12 are committed to supply future satellite missions, including constellations of telecommunication satellites, with antenna solutions.