Our Infrastructure
Deep vertical integrity with compounding flight heritage. Every subsystem, every line of flight code, every AIT process developed and built in unison under one roof to the requirements of comprehensive satellite constellation production & operations.
20,000sqft Satellite Factory
Tucked in a quiet village near Oxford, OrbAstro operates a 20,000sqft satellite factory built for rapid constellation deployment. Components enter through one door; flight-ready, constellation-grade satellites exit through another.
Our inspection, assembly, integration, and test processes are streamlined for parallel production across nanosatellite and ESPA-class platforms, allowing multiple configurations and customer constellations to move through the facility simultaenously.
Depending on configuration mix and satellite class, the factory is designed for a throughput capacity of approximately 500 satellites per year.
S-band & Ka-band Ground Station Network
We have designed and built our own ground-station terminals located in the UK, India, and Australia, with coverage expanding into approximately two additional geographies per year. Our RF chain enables downlinks of up to 4Gbps.
Our satellites are also compatible with leading third-party ground-station networks, and operate through providers including AWS, KSAT, and Leaf Space.
For customers who require their own independent ground infrastructure, we provide and support dedicated S-/Ka-band hybrid phased array ground terminals, optimised to maximise data throughput from OrbAstro satellites and provide greater control over mission data access.
petaFLOPS-scale Data Centre
We operate a 97 petaFLOP processing cluster built to support real-time satellite health monitoring, RF performance analysis, mission data processing, and constellation-scale operational decision support.
The cluster ingests telemetry, ground-station activity, RF link performance, mission operations data, and long-term subsystem trends across the satellites we manage. It provides the compute backbone for high-volume data analysis, operational dashboards, automated reporting, and fleet-scale performance monitoring.
This data-centre infrastructure supports our Mission Control System and Abel AI engine, giving our operators the processing capacity required to manage satellites at constellation scale and turn live mission data into actionable insight for customers, operators, and automated mission-control workflows.
End-to-End Mission Operations Framework
Our Mission Operations Framework takes each satellite from pre-launch rehearsal through commissioning, routine operations, anomaly response, customer reporting, and end-of-life disposal.
Before launch, we use Flat-Sat testing, payload interface checks, mission-control familiarisation, and day-in-the-life rehearsals to validate command flows, data paths, operational assumptions, and customer processes.
Once in orbit, we lead commissioning, platform health checks, operational handover, routine tasking, command preparation, telemetry monitoring, data downlink coordination, and customer reporting through the Mission Control System.
Throughout the mission, we manage safe-mode response, anomaly triage, software updates, ground-station coordination, collision avoidance, retirement planning, and decommissioning execution, giving customers a complete operational service across the full satellite lifecycle.
HQ ADDRESS
Thames Court, Goring, Oxfordshire, RG8 9AQ, United Kingdom
CONTACT US
hello@orbastro.com