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Mina Mitry is the CEO and co-founder of Kepler Communications.
Kepler Communications has been awarded a multi-year contract from Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).
Kepler's first tranche of data relay satellites is set to launch in early 2026.
Kepler's commercial LEO constellation, the Kepler Network, will serve as a communication backbone to connect on-orbit platforms with multi-domain assets.
Kepler Communications Inc. received $500,000 to develop an orbital cloud infrastructure for satellite operations.
The SCOT80 optical communications terminal is deployed on several low Earth orbit satellites, including Kepler Communications’ commercial fleet and Space Development Agency military satellites built by Lockheed Martin.
Kepler Communications partnered with TESAT Spacecom for optical terminals beginning in 2022.
Kepler Communications’ filing includes two optical pathfinder satellites that were launched in quarter four of 2023.
Kepler Communications is collaborating with TESAT and Airbus to deliver the HydRON Element #1 optical constellation.
Mina Mitry, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Kepler Communications, and Laurent Jaffart, ESA Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications, signed the HydRON Element #1 contract.
The 19 HALO pool members are Airbus U.S. Space & Defense (Arlington, Virginia); Apex Technology, Inc. (Culver City, California); AST Space Mobile USA LLC (Midland, Texas); Astro Digital, U.S. Inc. (San Jose, California); Capella Space Corp. (San Francisco); CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas); Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas); Geneva Technologies Inc. (Monument, Colorado); Impulse Space, Inc. (Redondo Beach, California); Kepler Communications U.S. Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC (Arlington, Virginia); LeoStella LLC (Tukwila, Washington); Momentus Space (San Jose, California); Muon Space, Inc. (Mountain View, California); NovaWurks Inc. (Los Alamitos, California); Space Exploration Technologies Corps. (SpaceX) (Hawthorne, California); Turion Space Corp. (Irvine, California); Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Irvine, California); and York Space Systems LLC (Denver).
Kepler is scaling operations to deploy the first Tranche of its next-generation constellation and expects to offer initial optical services in 2025.
Kepler’s hybrid optical data relay network builds on flight heritage from Kepler’s existing constellation of 21 radio-frequency satellites.
The Kepler Network will initially service low Earth orbit and plans to provide connectivity services to missions in LEO, MEO, GEO, and beyond.
Kepler provides secure optical data relay services to government and commercial missions as a partner in modern space communications.
Kepler established optical inter-satellite links during commissioning and early operations between two Pathfinder satellites equipped with Space Development Agency compatible Tesat SCOT80 optical terminals.
Kepler’s relay satellites are designed to provide real-time connectivity for LEO satellites that can only relay data while passing over an approved ground station.
Kepler currently operates 21 much smaller satellites in sun-synchronous orbits that use radio frequencies to provide low-data-rate connectivity for remote devices.
Kepler Communications successfully tested optical inter-satellite links between a pair of data relay prototypes in low Earth orbit on 2024-06-11.
Kepler has started work at its Toronto factory to produce 10 data relay satellites for Tranche 1, including one in-orbit spare, to provide initial optical services before the end of 2025.