SpaceLink is a company building a data relay network for the space economy. As a subsidiary of Electro Optic Systems (EOS), SpaceLink is constructing a satellite relay system in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) that uses optical intersatellite links to provide secure, continuous, high-capacity communications between spacecraft in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and the ground. Their services support various applications like Earth observation, human spaceflight, and secure data transfer for government and commercial entities and has been awarded contracts by NASA and DARPA. SpaceLink aims to provide a TDRSS-like capability with greater capacity, leveraging advancements in optical communications.
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SpaceLink completed an agreement with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) last year.
Under its FCC license, SpaceLink must begin providing satellite communications service with satellites in medium Earth orbit by June 2024.
The SpaceLink relay network is designed to pick up where NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) leaves off and to extend capability using advances in optical communications.
SpaceLink ordered large satellites from OHB Systems AG under its previous plan for the initial constellation.
SpaceLink plans to begin offering service in early 2024 instead of mid-2024 under its new constellation plan.
SpaceLink plans to spend $240,000,000 to establish its initial constellation, down from $750,000,000 under its previous plan.
Electro Optic Systems Holdings is the parent company of SpaceLink and acquired Silicon Valley startup Audacy in 2020, gaining approximately 21 GHz of radio frequency spectrum.
SpaceLink’s planned data relay service is similar to NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite constellation in geostationary orbit.
SpaceLink announced the partnership with Axiom Space on 2022-02-17.
SpaceLink plans to work with Axiom Space to conduct the first demonstration of its space data relay service on the International Space Station.
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, manager of the ISS National Laboratory, awarded SpaceLink a contract to demonstrate data transmission from the Space Station through optical terminals at a rate of 10 gigabits per second.
SpaceLink's relay satellites use both RF and optical intersatellite links for real-time tasking and access to data.
SpaceLink provides secure, continuous, high-capacity connectivity to spacecraft on orbit using a constellation of relay satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO).
Tony Colucci is the Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer at SpaceLink.
Wendy Newman has joined SpaceLink as vice president of marketing and communications.
One of the SpaceLink satellites is always visible to support its services.
Wendy Newman provided marketing and communications services to SpaceLink and other technology companies as the principal of Strategic Voice, a PR firm she founded in 2019.
Satellite servicers or tugs receive maneuvering instructions anytime from SpaceLink satellites.
SpaceLink allows LEO satellite operators to have low latency, always-on access to data.
Visitors to commercial space stations can have continuous communication capability with SpaceLink.