aurora nova

What aurora nova does

Aurora Nova is a private, San Francisco-based software company that provides a cloud-based regulatory compliance and filing automation platform for space communications licensing. The platform converts structured spacecraft, ground site, orbit, beam, channel, and link parameters into complete FCC applications, schedules, exhibits, and narratives, and continuously tracks grant conditions, milestones, bonds, deadlines, duty cycles, and boresight limitations from the day of grant onward. It targets three customer segments: spacecraft operators managing space station authorizations and modifications, ground station operators handling earth station licensing across multiple sites, and outside counsel and consultants preparing filings on behalf of clients.

The product was built by a founding team of engineers and operators with experience at NASA, Capella Space, and Stanford, who collectively launched spacecraft, built ground station integrations, and filed with the FCC directly. Before writing product code, the team conducted more than 200 interviews with spacecraft operators, ground networks, and regulators to map how space licensing actually works. Current regulatory coverage is limited to the United States, supporting FCC Part 100, Part 25, Part 5, and Part 97 licensing, with ITU filings and other national regulator coverage listed as coming-soon capabilities. Differentiated features include auto-generated filings from structured parameters, change propagation across referencing filings, import of existing FCC and ITU filings via structured data or CSV, and a complete auditable filing history independent of personnel changes.

Aurora Nova operates a SaaS subscription business model with an enterprise field sales motion, evidenced by a demo-based consultative sales process routed through a calendar scheduling link on the company website. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, consistent with a quote-based selling approach targeting enterprise buyers in the space industry. Distribution is currently direct and domestic, with no disclosed channel partnerships, resellers, or international sales infrastructure.

Name

aurora nova

Website

https://auroranova.space

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Aurora Nova provides a cloud-based SaaS platform that automates FCC space communications licensing filings and compliance tracking for US spacecraft operators, ground station operators, and outside regulatory counsel in the space industry.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Subscription (SaaS): Cloud-based software platform providing regulatory filing automation and compliance tracking. Likely subscription-based with annual or multi-year contract terms given the enterprise B2B nature and regulatory compliance focus.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Aurora Nova provides a cloud-based SaaS platform that automates FCC space communications licensing filings for spacecraft operators and ground station operators. The software generates applications, schedules, exhibits, and narratives from structured parameter inputs across FCC Parts 100, 25, 5, and 97, and tracks grant conditions, milestones, and compliance deadlines to provide a single source of truth for regulatory workflows.

Product overview

Aurora Nova offers a unified platform for space communications licensing that simplifies the FCC filing process for spacecraft operators, ground station operators, and regulatory consultants. The platform consists of the core Aurora Nova Platform, which includes features for importing existing FCC and ITU filings, managing spacecraft/ground site parameters, auto-generating applications and compliance documents, and tracking regulatory conditions and deadlines. The product portfolio centers on the Regulatory Manager component, which operators use with their actual filing data to manage Part 100, Part 25, Part 5, and Part 97 licensing workflows.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Aurora Nova FCC Filing Automation Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces engineering and legal hours spent on assembly and data entry tasks
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Comtech Telecommunications: Comtech supplies satellite ground systems, network management, and communications infrastructure to government and commercial customers. It overlaps with Aurora Nova around space and ground communications customers, although Comtech is a larger hardware-and-services incumbent rather than a licensing SaaS.
• Kratos Defense & Security Solutions: Kratos provides satellite ground communications, space-domain awareness, and mission systems for operators and government customers. Its space communications software and target customers make it a broad incumbent comparator, but it does not specialize in FCC filing automation.
• Hughes Network Systems: Hughes provides satellite broadband, managed network services, and ground connectivity. It shares Aurora's spacecraft and ground communications customer base, but its core product is connectivity infrastructure and service rather than compliance workflow software.
• Viasat: Viasat operates satellite communications networks and provides connectivity services and ground infrastructure. Its operator and enterprise customer ecosystem is comparable at the target-market level, while Aurora Nova focuses specifically on licensing and compliance.
• SES: SES provides satellite connectivity, managed network, and distribution services to commercial and government customers. It is a broad incumbent in the space communications ecosystem that Aurora Nova serves, though it does not directly provide regulatory filing software.

Emerging players

• Hyperproof: Hyperproof is a compliance operations software platform for managing controls, audits, evidence, and ongoing obligations. It is not space-specific, but it is directly comparable in recurring enterprise compliance workflow automation and SaaS delivery.
• Orbit Logic: Orbit Logic develops space mission planning, scheduling, and operations software for satellite missions and operators. It is a closer space-software comparator because it embeds workflow automation in operator operations, although it does not focus on FCC licensing.
• RBC Signals: RBC Signals operates a global network of satellite ground stations and related connectivity services. It overlaps with Aurora Nova's ground-station operator segment and offers a useful infrastructure-side comparator.
• Slingshot Aerospace: Slingshot Aerospace provides space situational awareness, tracking, and analytics software for satellite operators and government customers. It is adjacent rather than direct, but shares Aurora Nova's operator-facing, data-centric space software category.

Regional players

• Kongsberg Satellite Services: KSAT provides satellite ground-station and communications services, including coverage for polar and remote operations. It is a regional and infrastructure peer serving the same broader ground-network ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses6 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aurora-nova-space

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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