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Astranis was named to the Protected Tactical Satcom-Global Space Force program for anti-jam military satcom capabilities from smaller form factor satellites.
John Gedmark is co-founder and CEO of Astranis.
Astranis manufactures satellites at a factory at Historic Pier 70 in San Francisco.
Chunghwa Telecom ordered the first communications satellite exclusively dedicated to Taiwan from Astranis in 2025.
MB Group in Oman placed a sovereign satellite order with Astranis in 2025.
Astranis demonstrated its MicroGEO satellite platform in orbit in August 2025 when two satellites for in-flight connectivity provider Anuvu entered service.
John Gedmark is Chief Executive Officer of Astranis.
The dedicated MicroGEO satellite for Oman is contracted as part of Astranis’ Block 3 launch later this year.
MB Group is adopting Astranis’s next-generation high-orbit solutions as part of its portfolio of global partnerships.
The collaboration between Astranis and MB Group is intended to expand satellite broadband capacity across key markets in the Middle East.
Astranis and Oman-based conglomerate MB Group have a strategic agreement for Oman’s first dedicated MicroGEO satellite.
Astranis’ dedicated network for Oman will provide the Sultanate with sovereign control over its digital infrastructure.
The MicroGEO satellite contracted by MB Petroleum and Astranis is expected to be launched later this year and will help in the operation of oil rigs.
MB Petroleum, an Omani private company, signed an agreement with Astranis to launch a MicroGEO satellite in a deal worth $200 million.
Astranis is a San Francisco-based satellite developer.
Astranis’ Satellite-as-a-Service model enables smaller nations to deploy a dedicated 400 kilogram geostationary satellite for a fraction of the cost of traditional three-ton spacecraft.
On January 26, 2026, Oman’s MB Group and Astranis Space Technologies Corp. signed a nine-figure agreement for the procurement of a dedicated sovereign communications satellite.
Astranis is building a new satellite for Oman.
By owning capacity and controlling encryption on a dedicated Astranis satellite, Oman will ensure continuity of vital services and national security communications without being subject to the data-sharing policies or kill switches of foreign-owned megaconstellations.
Other customers on the Astranis Block 3 launch are Thaicom of Thailand and APCO of Mexico.