A small team with a great payload should be able to fly a successful mission without an in-house RF department, a half-million-dollar dish, or a year-long spectrum filing.
We run the antennas, the link budgets, the spectrum coordination, the modems, the 24-hour ops desk — so universities, early-stage operators, and sovereign science programs can focus on the experiment, the sensor, the science. We sell missions that come home with data, not minutes on a dish.
For sixty years, getting to orbit was the hard part. As of this year, it isn't. The economics of running a mission once you're up there are now the bottleneck — and the industry hasn't caught up.
SpaceX Falcon 9 brought $/kg to LEO from a $18,500 historical average down to $2,700. Starship is targeting another 99% reduction. Per SpaceX's May 2026 S-1 filing.
Half of first-time university missions never deliver useful science — almost always because the team couldn't operate a healthy spacecraft from a campus dish. Swartwout, CubeSat Reliability Database.
The other 11% is hundreds of universities, startups, and sovereign programs — each priced out of enterprise GSaaS, each lacking in-house RF expertise. BryceTech, 2025.
Cheap launch democratized the satellite. Nobody democratized the link back down.
NSF/NASA CubeSat science projects, ESA Fly Your Satellite teams, planetary and heliophysics swarms. We replace the campus rooftop dish, the student-built modem, and the institutional knowledge that walks out the door at graduation.
One or two satellites, no in-house ops team, an investor demo on the calendar. We give you continuous comms, real-time anomaly response, and fast commissioning — so a healthy spacecraft never goes dark on a Friday night.
Emerging-nation space agencies and ministries that buy turnkey satellites but need an operations layer that doesn't route their data through someone else's infrastructure. We let nations operate their own sky.
Launch is no longer the gate; operations is. We made the full argument in our first whitepaper — backed by Cal Poly + Stanford's original CubeSat work, Swartwout's reliability data, NASA's State-of-the-Art smallsat report, and SpaceX's own May 2026 S-1 filing.