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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The first stage booster previously launched Crew-8, Polaris Dawn, CRS-31, Astranis: From One to Many, IM-2, Commercial GTO-1, and eight Starlink missions.
Taiwan has partnered with US company Astranis and SES of Luxembourg and is in talks with Amazon's Kuiper and Canada's Telesat.
Four Astranis-built broadband spacecraft launched toward geostationary orbit on 2024-12-29 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Astranis’ previous satellite Arcturus launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in April 2023 and experienced failure of two onboard solar array drive assemblies.
The Falcon 9 carrying the four Astranis satellites lifted off at 12:00 a.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Arcturus was based on Astranis’ roughly 400-kilogram MicroGEO platform that can be reprogrammed in orbit.
The Block 2 batch of four Astranis satellites includes a deployable main reflector designed to boost Ka-band throughput per satellite from 10 gigabits per second to 12 gigabits per second.
Astranis launched more satellites to geostationary orbit over the last two years than any other operator in the same period.
The Falcon 9 placed the four Astranis satellites into a super-synchronous geostationary transfer orbit a little over half an hour after liftoff.
UtilitySat will first provide communications over Mexico for Apco Networks, a Mexican telco that has ordered two of the five Block 3 Astranis satellites that Astranis aims to launch together next year on an undisclosed rocket.
Astranis became the fourth company to deploy four or more satellites to geostationary orbit in a calendar year, joining SES, Intelsat, and Eutelsat.
Astranis plans to start deploying next-generation Omega broadband spacecraft in 2026 that will be slightly bigger than previous generations and deliver five times more throughput.
The four Astranis satellites will launch into a supersync Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).
Astranis will have launched more satellites to GEO over the last two years than any other operator.
Astranis will become the fourth company ever to launch four or more satellites to GEO in a single calendar year, joining SES, Intelsat, and Eutelsat.
Astranis’ next four satellites are scheduled to launch on 2024-12-17.
The 400-kilogram spacecraft are part of four Block 2 small GEO satellites built by Astranis that have been delayed since Astranis’s debut spacecraft suffered solar power issues following its 2023 launch.
Astranis will work through the concept phase to advance its R-GPS design ahead of USSF plans to build and launch a proliferated fleet of more than 20 small GPS satellites.
Astranis has built a $1,000,000,000 backlog for more than 10 MicroGEO satellites scheduled to launch over the next two years.
Astranis’ first product, MicroGEO, operates in geostationary orbit and provides dedicated satellite connectivity.