Saturn Satellite Networks, established in 2017, is a US-based space technology and service developer focused on providing affordable access to space communications. They specialize in designing and manufacturing small geostationary (GEO) satellites, including their "NationSat" platform, and related technologies like their "Andromeda" Guidance, Navigation & Control software. Saturn partners with companies like SEAKR Engineering, BridgeComm, CesiumAstro, and SWISSto12, and Ananth Technologies, and targets customers like national service operators and internet service providers. Key words associated with Saturn Satellite Networks include: GEO satellites, satellite manufacturing, space-based internet, and software-defined radio.
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Tom Choi is chief executive of Saturn Satellite Networks, a company developing a network of small geostationary satellites.
Saturn Satellite Networks selected CesiumAstro’s Vireo-GEO active phased array RF payload for Saturn’s Space BroadbandNetworks-1 (SBN-1).
EMP Structured Assets GmbH and Saturn Satellite Networks have secured more than $235,000,000 from equity investors for the SBN-1 program.
Saturn Satellite Networks selected CesiumAstro’s Vireo-GEO active phased array RF payload for the Space Broadband Networks-1 (SBN-1) program.
Saturn Satellite Networks is seeking funding to revive its small geostationary satellite manufacturing business.
Equity investors have promised to fund nearly half of Saturn Satellite Networks’ $500,000,000 Space BroadbandNetworks-1 (SBN-1) program.
Saturn Satellite Networks offers a two-kilowatt satellite platform called MiniGEOSat.
Saturn Satellite Networks procures and integrates nearly 99% of ISN HTS GEO payload and bus components in the USA.
Saturn Satellite Networks offers a version of the Intelligent Space Node platform designed for non-geostationary orbit (NGSO).
Saturn Satellite Networks has signed a memorandum of understanding with a preeminent heavy-lift launch system operator to deploy all six SBN-1 satellites on a single mission in the second half of 2025.
EMP Structured Assets GmbH and Saturn Satellite Networks secured more than $235,000,000 from equity investors for the SBN-1 program.
Saturn Satellite Networks has a commitment letter from the Export–Import Bank of the United States to cover the remainder of SBN-1 project financing and plans to initiate that financing in the first quarter of 2023.
Saturn Satellite Networks has executed a launch agreement with a U.S.-based company to deploy its first satellite to non-geostationary orbit in the second half of 2024.
Once contracts with equity investors are finalized, Saturn Satellite Networks will start ordering parts and conduct preliminary and critical design reviews to commence manufacturing, assembly, and testing for SBN-1.
Saturn Satellite Networks, Inc. was established in 2017 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Airspace Internet Exchange, Inc.
Saturn Satellite Networks will integrate the SBN-1 payloads into its low-cost GEO platform, the Intelligent Space Node (ISN), at partner facilities in Silicon Valley.
Saturn Satellite Networks has a commitment letter from the Export–Import Bank of the United States that it plans to initiate in the first quarter of 2023 to cover the remainder of SBN-1 financing needs.
EMP Structured Assets GmbH and Saturn Satellite Networks have secured more than $235,000,000 from equity investors for the SBN-1 program.
Saturn Satellite Networks selected CesiumAstro’s Vireo-GEO active phased array RF payload for the Space BroadbandNetworks-1 (SBN-1) program.
The SBN-1 payloads will be developed at CesiumAstro’s facilities in Austin, Texas for integration into Saturn Satellite Networks’ Intelligent Space Node (ISN) low-cost GEO platform at a partner’s Silicon Valley facilities.