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SWISSto12 aims to standardize the HummingSat platform and grow its team.
SWISSto12 will expand its facilities and automate engineering and manufacturing with the new funding.
SWISSto12 plans an inaugural launch for the HummingSat small GEO satellite platform in 2027.
SWISSto12 has plans to roll out ground user terminals at scale for commercial and government customers globally.
SWISSto12 closed €73M in non-dilutive funding from ESA under the ARTES program.
SWISSto12 sold four HummingSat satellites, one to Intelsat and three to Viasat.
Swissto12’s HummingSat small Geostationary Orbit program secured 73 million euro ($84.8 million) in financial support from European Space Agency member states.
ESA Member States committed €73 million in additional funding for SWISSto12’s HummingSat project at the 2025 ESA Ministerial Council meeting.
SWISSto12 is based in Renens, Switzerland.
HummingSat is being developed by Swissto12 in partnership with the European Space Agency.
Intelsat became the first HummingSat customer when it signed an agreement with SWISSto12 in November 2022.
Swissto12 is building three HummingSat satellites for Viasat.
The ESA and member-state funding will allow Swissto12 to further develop phased-array antenna technologies for onboard satellite payloads and ground products such as user terminals.
The ESA and member-state funding will support the development and industrialization of HummingSat, scale up Swissto12’s manufacturing capacity, and support development of new products.
ESA and SWISSto12 signed a contract in early 2022 to begin work on the HummingSat Partnership Project.
There is an illustration of a Swissto12 HummingSat satellite depicted in geostationary orbit for Inmarsat-8.
SWISSto12 will use the new ESA Member State funding to accelerate development and industrialisation of HummingSat and to scale up HummingSat manufacturing capacity.
Member States committed €30 million in initial funding for SWISSto12’s HummingSat project at the 2022 ESA Ministerial Council meeting in Paris.
SWISSto12’s HummingSat satellites will be approximately one-tenth the volume of a traditional geostationary satellite.
Swissto12 secured nearly 100 million euros ($117 million) from private investors in the second half of 2025.