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CesiumAstro designs and manufactures software-defined, phased-array communications payloads, satellites and related RF/compute hardware for space, airborne and ground platforms. Its product line includes the Element spacecraft, Skylark mobile SATCOM terminals, Vireo and Nightingale Ka-band payloads, and a family of software-defined radio and processing modules. Customers include NASA, the U.S. Space Development Agency, Raytheon, Rocket Lab and other government and commercial space programs.
In November 2026 the company launched Element-1, the first of a planned eight-satellite demonstration sequence, and used its successful on-orbit operation to unveil Synchronicity, a planned 737-satellite AI-enabled constellation intended to provide multi-band (Ku, Ka, V) connectivity with onboard edge compute across multiple orbits.
CesiumAstro was founded in 2017 by Shey Sabripour and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional facilities in Broomfield, Colorado, El Segundo, California, and the United Kingdom (following its 2023 acquisition of TXMission). The company has raised equity and debt financing through a Series D round in November 2026, after prior Series C (February 2026), Series B+ (2024) and Series A (2019) rounds, and announced a $500 million, five-year expansion of its Austin headquarters and manufacturing operations.