Startups Astranis and ReOrbit, veterans Maxar and Melco: Different business models, but a shared belief in the GEO market

by Peter B. de Selding

UPDATE Jan. 27: This story has been updated to reflect Astranis's order of a SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch five micro-GEO satellites later this year. 

BANGKOK — Satellite builders Astranis, Maxar Technologies, Mitsubishi Electric  Co. (Melco) and ReOrbit have concluded GEO orbit remains a dynamic market that is not being made obsolete by LEO satellite constellations.

The four companies view the market from starkly different perspectives and described their strategies Nov. 5 at the APSCC 2024 conference here.

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