CesiumAstro designs and manufactures active phased-array communications payloads, software-defined radios and satellites for space, airborne, ground and maritime use. Founded in 2017 by Shey Sabripour and headquartered in Austin, Texas, it also operates facilities in Broomfield, Colorado, El Segundo, California and the United Kingdom following its 2023 acquisition of TXMission. Its flagship Vireo Ka-band AESA payloads have been selected for Space Development Agency satellite constellations, and it has won a NASA LunaNet lunar communications contract. The company has raised over $150 million in equity across Series A and Series B rounds.
What sets it apart
Vertically integrated, software-defined phased-array payloads built in-house on commercial components, which lets multi-beam, reconfigurable satellite communications hardware be produced at constellation scale rather than as one-off custom builds.