Kepler Communications is a satellite telecommunications provider based in Toronto, Canada, with a mission to deliver Internet connectivity to space. The company is building the Kepler Network, an optical data relay constellation, to provide real-time, high-bandwidth data transfer and on-orbit computing services for space-based assets. Kepler's customers include Axiom Space, NASA, and the Space Development Agency (SDA), and it is working towards providing connectivity services in LEO, MEO, GEO, and beyond, using optical inter-satellite links (OISLs). Associated keywords: satellite telecommunications, optical data relay, in-space communications, internet for space, LEO, MEO, GEO.
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Kepler Communications’ space relay network is designed to be Space Development Agency–compatible and to provide low-latency, high-throughput on-orbit data relay services.
Kepler Communications is expanding from low-data-rate IoT connectivity into optical data relay.
Kepler Communications raised $92,000,000 in a Series C funding round 2023.
Kepler Communications will use Kepler 20 and Kepler 21 to provide additional test and validation for payload technology planned for their next generation of satellites.
Kepler Communications plans to launch two Pathfinder satellites in Fall 2023 to test and validate optical communication technology developed for the Kepler constellation.
Kepler Communications plans to launch an optical data relay infrastructure in 2024 to complement its existing RF network.
Since 2016 Kepler Communications has raised more than $200,000,000 in equity from investors including Costanoa Ventures, Canaan Partners, Tribe Capital, and BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund.
Kepler Communications raised $92,000,000 in Series C funding led by IA Ventures.
Kepler Communications raised $92,000,000 on 2023-04-13 to start deploying an optical data-relay constellation next year.
Kepler Communications has raised more than $200,000,000 to date by selling equity.
Kepler Communications still plans to provide some data relay services in S-band from the new network despite prioritizing optical technology.
Kepler Communications currently operates 19 satellites in sun-synchronous orbits that provide low-data-rate connectivity for devices out of range of terrestrial networks.
Kepler Communications plans to begin deploying the first plane of data relay satellites in 2024 for initial services by early 2025 under the name The Kepler Network.
Kepler Communications plans to begin deploying its Aether data-relay constellation, which relies on optical and RF data links, early next year.
Kepler Communications plans a data-relay constellation of larger satellites that it expects to start deploying in 2023.
Kepler Communications operates 19 cubesats that provide low-data-rate connectivity to devices out of range of terrestrial networks.
D-Orbit signed a launch and deployment contract with Kepler Communications for the launch of two, 6U telecommunications smallsats.
Kepler Communications currently operates 19 satellites to provide connectivity to devices out of range of terrestrial networks.
In October 2020, Kepler Communications agreed to use Momentus Space’s Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle to deploy two satellites in 2021.
Kepler Communications started testing inter-satellite links earlier 2022 for its Aether data relay network.