Astranis

Astranis is an American space technology company that designs and manufactures small communications satellites for geostationary and other high Earth orbits. The company’s core innovation is a line of small, radiation-tolerant spacecraft built for high orbits, a combination it says nobody else has come close to replicating. Its flagship product, MicroGEO, is positioned as the world’s lowest-cost satellite broadband, designed to deliver dedicated satellite capacity in geostationary orbit.

MicroGEO satellites are built to serve small and medium-sized countries, Fortune 1000 companies, and other commercial customers that need dedicated bandwidth. Rather than relying on large shared spacecraft, Astranis aims to give each customer its own satellite, an approach intended to expand access to satellite broadband for regions and organizations that have historically been underserved by traditional GEO operators.

Beyond commercial broadband, Astranis offers services across orbits and use cases. The company holds contracts with the U.S. Space Force, NASA, and other government partners, and it works across medium Earth orbit and geostationary orbit to support government science, positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), and communications missions. Its satellite systems incorporate onboard propulsion, radiation-hardened electronics, and configurable bandwidth management for mission flexibility.

Astranis operates across the full spacecraft lifecycle, including spacecraft design, satellite manufacturing, launch coordination, and in-orbit operations, supported by integrated engineering and testing capabilities. The company has built a reported $1 billion backlog for more than 12 MicroGEO satellites scheduled to launch over a two-year window, reflecting growing demand for dedicated small GEO capacity.

Astranis has raised $750 million from global investors and employs a team of more than 400 engineers and builders. The company is headquartered at Historic Pier 70 in San Francisco, California. Its team includes people who have previously worked at organizations such as SpaceX, OneWeb, Blue Origin, Planet Labs, Qualcomm, Google, Apple, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Hughes, and NASA.

The company describes its mission in expansive terms: connecting the world, supporting American forces and allies, and eventually extending humanity’s reach beyond Low Earth Orbit and into the solar system. Astranis frames its work as building the infrastructure that governments, businesses, and billions of people will rely on for decades, emphasizing dedicated space infrastructure that expands access and strengthens sovereignty.

Astranis presents itself as a mission-driven, in-person workplace. According to its careers page, the team works together five days per week at its San Francisco factory. The company says it offers competitive pay, broad equity ownership, health and well-being benefits, work-life integration, and development and recognition programs, and it emphasizes giving talented individuals more responsibility and impact than they might find at a traditional large company.