ESA awarded Kepler a €18.6 million contract for HydRON Element 3.
In late 2024, ESA awarded Kepler a €36 million contract to serve as the prime contractor for HydRON Element 1.
Sophia Space’s software will remain in an isolated container on the Kepler network to test its ability to operate in orbit.
Sophia Space will upload SOOS to the Kepler network by the end of this year.
Sophia Space will partner with Kepler Communications to deploy Sophia Space’s SOOS operating system on Kepler’s distributed in-orbit compute network.
FedDev Ontario provided Kepler Communications a $7 million federal investment to commercialize Kepler’s Tranche 1 optical data relay network.
The Space Development Agency, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, and Kepler established a bi-directional link between a satellite and an aircraft in flight in August 2025.
Kepler Communications integrated the Kepler Compute fabric with SDA-compatible optical inter-satellite links.
Future Kepler tranches will introduce 100-gigabit optical technology and increased GPU density.
Kepler Communications’ Kepler Compute fabric is powered by 40 NVIDIA Jetson Orin modules.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) found most of the more than 6,000 confirmed exoplanets.
Only 47 candidate planets around binary stars were found by Kepler and TESS surveys.
Kepler’s optical network is planned to scale to 100 Gbps-class capacity with future tranches.
The Kepler–NanoAvionics partnership targets spacecraft with a mass of up to 500 kg for hosted payload initiatives.
The Kepler–NanoAvionics partnership will utilize U.S. Space Development Agency standards for secure, interoperable data transfer.
The partnership focuses on integrating NanoAvionics’ platforms with The Kepler Network to provide satellite operators with real-time optical connectivity and on-orbit compute services.
The collaboration will initially focus on integrating Kepler services with the MP42 microsatellite platform before expanding to NanoAvionics’ CubeSat lines.
NanoAvionics will use different optical inter-satellite links (OISL) across its MP42 microsatellite and cubesat platforms when offering Kepler’s services.
NanoAvionics will offer Kepler’s optical and on-orbit compute capabilities first on the NanoAvionics MP42 microsatellite and subsequently on its cubesat platforms.
The Kepler–NanoAvionics agreement allows hosted payloads on NanoAvionics buses to access Kepler Communications’ optical communications network.