What Eclipse Space does

Eclipse Space Technologies Corporation is a Seattle-based, privately-held space infrastructure company that designs, builds, and delivers turnkey, customer-owned satellite constellations for governments and commercial operators. The central commercial proposition is ownership: each satellite system is engineered to the customer's specification and owned entirely by the buyer rather than operated as a shared service by the provider. The company targets organizations that require bespoke space infrastructure for communication, navigation, and data transmission and that cannot rely on existing third-party constellations.

The technology stack is fully verticalized across the space and ground segments. Engineering teams develop guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) subsystems covering attitude determination, sensor fusion, maneuver planning, closed-loop orbit raise, station keeping, and deorbit sequencing, supported by 6DOF simulations, Monte Carlo campaigns, and FDIR logic. Payload software spans massive MIMO phased-array antennas, high-gain parabolic antennas, and software-and-hardware modem implementations for satellite communications links. High-reliability avionics use FPGAs, microcontrollers, DDR4/LPDDR4 memory, and multi-GHz SerDes (Ethernet, PCIe); mechanical and thermal subsystems cover structure, enclosures, and thermal management. The ground software platform handles telemetry pipelines, commanding, CI/CD frameworks, simulation environments, beam planning, collision avoidance, and operator alerting, and the company operates hardware test infrastructure including TVAC, vibration, and HALT/HASS environmental testing with Python-based test automation, enabling full lifecycle ownership from qualification through on-orbit operations.

Revenue is generated through custom engineering and delivery contracts paid as hardware sales, with no disclosed pricing, recurring service revenue, or public reference customers. Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales targeting government and defense-aligned buyers, enabled by an ITAR-compliant U.S. corporate structure (Eclipse Space Technologies Corporation). The company is in an active scaling phase, recruiting across multiple engineering disciplines from its Seattle headquarters.

Name

Eclipse Space

Legal name

Eclipse Space Technologies Corporation

Website

https://eclipse.space

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Eclipse Space Technologies Corporation is a Seattle-based private company that designs, builds, and delivers custom-owned satellite constellations for governments and commercial operators requiring dedicated space infrastructure for communication, navigation, and data services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Satellite Infrastructure

NAICS

Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing (336414), Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (336419)

SIC

Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts (3760), Search, Detection, Navagation, Guidance, Aeronautical Sys (3812)

akta.pro primary industry

Spacecraft & Satellites (Civil/Commercial) (IMABACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) for Space Systems (IMABACAG), Spacecraft Avionics, Flight Computers & Software (IMABACAI), Space Payloads & Instruments (Sensors, Comms, EO/IR) (IMABACAD), Satellite Network Operations & Capacity Services (NOC, Capacity Leasing, Managed Payload Services) (HDAIAJAI)

Keywords

• Satellite constellation design
• Space infrastructure services
• Satellite payload engineering
• Satellite electronics manufacturing
• Ground software systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Redmond

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Custom Satellite Infrastructure Engineering and Delivery: Eclipse Space delivers space infrastructure engineered to customer specification and owned entirely by the customer. Revenue is generated through the design, development, and delivery of custom satellite constellation systems for communication, navigation, and data applications.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Eclipse Space designs, engineers, and delivers turnkey custom satellite constellations and space infrastructure for governments and commercial operators. The company develops the full satellite stack — including avionics, RF communications, guidance/navigation/control (GNC), payload systems, mechanical structures, and ground operations software — and hands ownership of the constellation entirely to the customer. Deliverables span communication, navigation, and data-transmission satellite systems engineered to customer specification.

Product overview

Eclipse Space is a space infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates satellite constellations for communication, navigation, and data transmission. The company delivers space infrastructure as a customized, customer-owned service. Their engineering organization encompasses ground software, GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control), electrical/hardware engineering, payload software, mechanical systems, supply chain, and hardware testing capabilities to support satellite constellation development and operations. No individual named products, modules, or service tiers were identified in the provided source content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Custom Satellite Constellation Design and Delivery Turnkey design, development, and delivery of customer-owned satellite constellations engineered to specification for communication, navigation, and data applications. Includes satellite platforms, avionics, RF/payload systems, GNC, ground software, and full hardware testing — owned entirely by the customer rather than by the provider.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Sierra Space: Space systems and services company with satellite and ground capabilities plus broader space transportation portfolio. Comparable as a satellite infrastructure contractor competing for government constellation programs.
• Redwire Corporation: Space hardware and subsystems provider offering avionics, structures, and mechanisms across multiple space programs. Comparable as a supplier in the same procurement ecosystem; broader portfolio and public-company scale put it in incumbent rather than direct-peer territory.
• Lockheed Martin Space: Major aerospace prime delivering satellites, ground systems, and constellation programs for US government and commercial customers. Comparable buyer base and constellation prime contracting capability, but with vastly broader portfolio and deeper program heritage.
• Northrop Grumman Space Systems: Major prime with extensive satellite manufacturing, GNC, and constellation operations heritage. Competes with Eclipse for the same government constellation programs but at much larger scale and with decades of flight heritage.

Emerging players

• Astranis: Designs and builds small GEO satellites for dedicated broadband and connectivity customers. Comparable in the customer-owned-dedicated-satellite positioning, though focused on a different orbit regime (GEO vs LEO/constellation).
• Swarm Technologies (SpaceX): Small-satellite operator providing low-cost global connectivity and IoT services via its own constellation. Comparable in the smallsat/constellation infrastructure space, though operating as a service rather than selling customer-owned platforms.

Direct peers

• Terran Orbital: US-based smallsat manufacturer with end-to-end constellation design, build, and operations. Comparable in full-stack vertical integration, government/defense customer base, and constellation prime contracting model.
• York Space Systems: US-based manufacturer of custom small satellite buses and full constellation delivery for government and commercial customers. Direct comparable to Eclipse — same custom-build, customer-owned business model and similar target buyer (DOD, intelligence, commercial operators).
• Apex Space: Vertically integrated smallsat bus manufacturer offering standardized satellite platforms with rapid delivery. Comparable to Eclipse in targeting the constellation infrastructure customer and competing on integration speed and full-stack engineering.
• Loft Orbital: Operates a satellite platform infrastructure model with customer-owned payloads flying on shared buses. Comparable in the "customer-owned space infrastructure" framing and in serving organizations that want space capability without building it themselves.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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