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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Astranis is entering the final assembly phase for the first in its line of very small geostationary orbit satellites for launch in early 2022.
Astranis’s Alaska satellite is scheduled to initiate service from geostationary orbit in early 2022.
The Astranis Software-Defined Radio provides frequency flexibility across 2.5 GHz of spectrum, creates thousands of independently routable channels, maximizes spectral efficiency, and enables reconfiguration on-orbit.
Astranis expected to deliver 7.5 Gbps to Alaska but end-to-end testing indicates it may deliver around 10 Gbps, approximately 20% more than expected.
The Arcturus satellite is the first in a line of micro GEO satellites that Astranis is developing, each weighing 400 kg.
Astranis will use some Series C funding to build a new satellite production facility designed to produce dozens and then hundreds of satellites.
Astranis raised $250,000,000 in a Series C funding round on 2021-04-14 that valued the company at $1,400,000,000.
Astranis’s Alaska satellite is slated to ship out later 2021 for launch on a SpaceX rocket.
Astranis plans to launch the Arcturus satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in early 2022.
Astranis has raised more than $350,000,000 in total funding to date.
Astranis raised $250,000,000 in a Series C funding round that values the company at $1,400,000,000.
Astranis raised $90,000,000 in a debt and equity round in February 2020.
Astranis plans to expand spectrum use beyond Ka-band to higher-frequency Q- and V-band, which are largely unused.
Astranis is developing small geostationary satellites at around 350 kg, making them among the smallest geostationary spacecraft in the commercial industry.
Astranis had funding in hand to start service with its first commercial satellite scheduled to launch later 2021 for Alaska.
Funds managed by BlackRock led Astranis’s Series C financing round.
Astranis plans to expand spectrum use beyond Ka-band to higher frequency Q- and V-band.
Astranis had funding in hand to start service with its first commercial satellite, which is scheduled to launch later 2021 for Alaska.
Funds managed by BlackRock led Astranis’s Series C financing round.
Astranis plans to deploy its MicroGEO smallsats into geostationary orbit (GEO).