SpaceDaily · May 2026
Analysis piece framing Basalt as a sovereignty-first constellation startup focused on customer-controlled orbital capacity rather than competing on raw scale with Starlink.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Basalt Technologies Corp. is a San Francisco-based space startup building software-defined spacecraft and “Constellations as a Service” (CaaS): autonomous, customer-taskable satellite constellations backed by its Dispatch satellite OS and orbital AI stack.
Primary product
Dispatch, Basalt’s satellite operating system and autonomy layer for Constellations as a Service
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Defense and Space Manufacturing
Sub-industry
Space operations software / satellite operating systems
Offices
Downtown San Francisco hacker house (cleanroom / chemical lab / mission control)
Lower Nob Hill, San Francisco, California (three adjacent apartments used by the team)
Business model
Constellations as a Service (CaaS)
tiered monthly subscription plans
direct enterprise and government sales
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.1M
Latest round
Seed · May 2024
Latest amount
$3.5M
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Thomas Leung
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Growth Officer
SVP of Software
David J. "Jeff" Green
SVP of National Security Space
Founders
Co-founder, COO
Work & culture
Publicly visible culture signals point to a small, highly hands-on, execution-heavy team operating from a downtown SF hacker house with a cleanroom, chemical lab, and mission control, plus strong emphasis on rapid prototyping and mission milestones.
Product & market
Pricing
Tiered monthly pricing with public starting prices and contact-sales/custom enterprise options
Differentiators
- —Autonomous constellations with no dedicated human operators
- —Customers can task their own constellation directly
- —Software-defined and hardware-agnostic satellite OS
- —Mission-specific tailored platforms instead of one-off custom stacks
- —Natural-language control for orbital operations
- —Public, transparent monthly pricing
Technology
Dispatch satellite OS
orbital AI / Diamond
natural-language constellation tasking
software-defined spacecraft
simulation-based control systems
custom flight computer
UHF and S-band ground link
RGB / multispectral / hyperspectral sensing
6-DOF pointing and control
LEO / GEO / cislunar mission support
Customers
government agencies
national security / defense missions
private enterprise customers
research institutions
university space programs
commercial mission operators
Competitors
Starlink
Astranis
Maxar
Planet Labs
AIKO
ATLAS Space Operations
LMO
SpaceAble
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$440K ARR (estimated, public third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
614
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
WIRED · May 2026
Profile of Basalt and the Bay Area satellite startup scene; describes intense execution, the SF apartment/hacker-house setup, and the company’s push toward autonomous satellite operations.
Exolaunch · May 2026
Launch mission page that lists Basalt’s BSLT-3 as one of the payloads deployed on CAS500-2, supporting the company’s 2026 on-orbit milestone.
Balerion Space · Dec 2025
Founder interview covering Basalt’s autonomous satellite-constellation thesis, customer segments, fundraising momentum, and 2026 mission plans.
TechCrunch · May 2024
Reports Basalt’s $3.5M seed round led by Initialized Capital, with Y Combinator, Liquid2 and General Catalyst participating, plus details on Dispatch and early customer pipeline.
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