Astranis

Small telecommunications satellites for internet access in remote regions.

astranis.com

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

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Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Astranis is a San Francisco-based space company that designs, builds, and operates small geostationary-orbit satellites for dedicated broadband and other high-orbit missions. Its core approach is to provide satellite connectivity as a service with smaller, faster-to-deploy spacecraft rather than large traditional GEO satellites.

Primary product

MicroGEO satellites / dedicated satellite broadband service

Founded

2015

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

201-500

Industry

Aviation & Aerospace

Sub-industry

Satellite communications / space hardware and services

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

Los Altos, California, United States

Business model

B2B satellite communications service

long-term satellite capacity leases

government and defense contracts

hardware + mission operations

Funding

Stage

Series E

Total raised

$1.2B

Latest round

Series E · May 2026

Latest amount

$300M

Series E

May 2026 · Snowpoint Ventures and Franklin Templeton

$300M

Series D

Jul 2024 · Andreessen Horowitz Growth Fund

$200M

Seed

Oct 2020

People & investors

Leadership

John Gedmark

CEO and Co-founder

Ryan McLinko

Co-founder

Mike Mancini

Executive Officer

Christian Keil

Vice President

Govindhasamy Karthik

Co-Founder & CTO

Anand Kulkarni

Vice President

Gregg Walsh

Vice President, Business

John Trionfo

Chief Growth Officer

Adam Hawkes F.

Head of Marketing

Investors

Work & culture

Astranis presents itself as a fast-moving aerospace company focused on engineering execution, in-house manufacturing, and rapid iteration on flight hardware. Public messaging emphasizes building a large team of engineers and entrepreneurs and solving hard space problems quickly.

Product & market

Pricing

Dedicated capacity sold via long-term leases; UtilitySat is described as available for shorter-term tasking / mission use. Astranis also describes its model as satellite-as-a-service / dedicated satellite broadband.

Differentiators

—Smaller MicroGEO satellites instead of large traditional GEO spacecraft
—Faster manufacturing and deployment
—In-house manufacturing of a large share of components
—Dedicated capacity for a single customer or mission
—High-orbit / GEO focus with software-defined flexibility
—Backup satellite architecture (UtilitySat) for resiliency
—Targets both commercial telecom and government/defense missions

Technology

GitHub

Terraform

Python

Docker

Matlab

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Helm

Bash

Azure Automation

HTML

ANSYS

Simulink

Protobuf

Unix

Customers

Chunghwa Telecom

Anuvu

telecom operators in Mexico

telecom operators in the Philippines

U.S. government / U.S. Space Force

NASA

government and commercial customers in general

Competitors

Viasat

HughesNet / EchoStar

Intelsat

SES

Eutelsat

traditional GEO satellite manufacturers

LEO connectivity providers

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

~$1M-$10M annual revenue (public estimates; Exa surfaced ~$1.2M, but this is only an estimate and may be stale/incomplete)

Estimated monthly visits

5.8K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Signals & risks

Other

Jul 2023

Arcturus, Astranis’s first commercial internet satellite, experienced a solar array drive assembly anomaly that prevented continuous service to Alaska; Astranis shifted to a backup plan using UtilitySat.

Source

Other

Jul 2023

Astranis publicly acknowledged the anomaly and said the mission would be delayed, but the satellite remained safe and under control.

Source

Latest news

Astranis adds $450 million to meet surging demand for advanced high-orbit spacecraft

Astranis · May 2026

Announced a $300M Series E plus additional credit facility, bringing total capital raised to over $1.2B and citing backlog over $1B and new government/commercial demand.

Astranis Tapped as Prime Contractor for U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical SATCOM Global (PTS-G) Program

Astranis · Aug 2025

Astranis says it was selected as prime contractor for a U.S. Space Force protected communications program.

Chunghwa Telecom and Astranis sign strategic agreement to launch Taiwan’s first dedicated satellite

Astranis blog · Apr 2025

Major partnership for a dedicated MicroGEO satellite for Taiwan, described as the first communications satellite ever exclusively dedicated to Taiwan.

Astranis is set to build Omega constellation after $200M Series D

TechCrunch · Jul 2024

Covers the $200M Series D and Astranis’s next-generation Omega satellites with higher bandwidth and in-house manufacturing scale.

Astranis $200 Million Series D Funds Omega Satellite Program

Astranis blog · Jun 2024

Astranis announced a $200 million Series D led by a16z Growth Fund and co-led by BAM Elevate, taking total capital raised to $750 million at the time.

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Jobs and careers at Astranis

99 jobs at Astranis

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