Astranis Space Technologies is a satellite manufacturer and operator that builds small, low-cost telecommunications satellites for providing dedicated internet bandwidth, especially to underserved regions. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company utilizes its MicroGEO satellites with proprietary software-defined radio payloads to offer bandwidth-as-a-service. Astranis has contracts with the U.S. Space Force, NASA, and commercial partners like Pacific Dataport and Anuvu, focusing on connectivity solutions and government science missions. The company aims to produce up to 24 satellites a year.
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On 2023-02-14, Astranis Space Technologies won a $4,500,000 contract to integrate a U.S. military communications waveform on one of the company’s satellite communications payloads.
Pacific Dataport Inc’s Arcturus satellite, the first commercial spacecraft built by Astranis, is slated to fly as a secondary payload on a delayed SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch early 2023 alongside Viasat’s ViaSat-3 satellite.
Astranis is on track to deliver Anuvu’s first two satellites for a mid-2023 launch aboard a single SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Anuvu ordered the dedicated satellite from Astranis in 2021 four months after emerging from bankruptcy protection.
Astranis is a two-year-old company that has completed its first satellite and has scaled to over 300 employees.
Astranis has made multiple sales for satellite programs to serve countries worldwide.
Doug Abts has joined Astranis as the new Chief Commercial Officer.
Astranis has moved into a world-class facility to support its growth.
Doug Abts' expertise is applicable to scaling a satellite services business at Astranis.
Astranis plans to launch five satellites in the upcoming year, including four on a dedicated Falcon 9 rocket.
Pacific Dataport Inc plans to use Astranis’s Arcturus satellite to provide broadband coverage over Alaska.
Astranis plans to launch its first geostationary smallsat, Arcturus, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy as a secondary payload with Viasat’s ViaSat-3.
The first two Astranis satellites for Anuvu are due to launch next year to geostationary orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Astranis offers small geostationary satellites as an alternative to traditional, large satellites that take many years to build and cost hundreds of millions of dollars each.
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program buys crew transportation services to the International Space Station from SpaceX and Boeing, which Astranis cites as an ideal partnership model.
Astranis’ small geostationary satellites have masses ranging from 350 to 400 kg.
One of the four Astranis satellites contracted for SpaceX launches in 2023 is for Peru’s telecommunications service Andesat.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Astranis a nearly $1,000,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract in 2020 for its software-defined radio technology.
Astranis Space Technologies is based in San Francisco and makes small geostationary satellites as a lower-cost alternative to traditional GEO spacecraft used by large satellite operators and the U.S. military.
Astranis signed a contract with SpaceX on 2022-04-05 to launch four small GEO satellites in 2023.