Orbital Gate
Sovereign ground for every constellation.
Country-owned ground stations, run as one regional network by our software.
- 2,284
- satellites can rent passes todaySource: CelesTrak, 20 Oct 2026
- $2.5B
- pass-rental market by 2033Source: MarketsandMarkets / Superscout
Network OS
One network OS runs every country's station for every constellation
Any operator books any node, and passes are stitched across borders when one site cannot cover the window. Each owner sets the rules. Every minute is signed and settled.
Scheduler
Allocates time, beams and spectrum across every node, under each owner's rules.
Stitched contacts
Builds one contact from segments on two nodes when neither covers the window alone.
Delegated authority
Each node receives a signed, time-boxed segment. One uplink token exists, and only its holder can transmit.
Proof of pass
Each node signs its segment, and the network signs the whole contact.
Settlement
Owners are paid for the minutes their node carried, straight from the signed record.
Sovereignty policy
Owners decide who may use a node and which partners it may stitch with, enforced on every allocation.
Failover
Bookings on a failed node move to licensed alternatives. What cannot move is credited.
Gateway hosting
Constellations lease gateway capacity on the same sites; leased capacity leaves the shared pool.
Watch the 4:18 technical walkthrough to see each of these run.
The packages in 1:34
Every node closes the gaps
Most ground stations sit in Europe and the far north. Country-owned nodes in small island states and across Africa close the gaps, keep each country's data at home, and run as one network: booked, metered and settled automatically.
Sovereignty
Starlink rents a country a gateway. Orbital Gate gives it the ground segment.
| Question | Starlink gateway | Orbital Gate node |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the ground | SpaceX | The host country, or financed to it |
| Who can use it | Starlink only | Every challenger constellation and satellite operator |
| Where data lands | Where SpaceX routes it | In country, under the owner's policy |
| Who operates it | SpaceX | National engineers, trained on delivery |
| What the country earns | Nothing; it pays SpaceX for capacity | A share of every minute its node carries |
Starlink: DCD; Via Satellite (Community Gateway).
Licensing
Four ways onto the network
The network earns on every connected antenna, whether Orbital Gate built it or not.
Network licence
Per antenna
For universities, agencies, teleports and other operators: bring an existing antenna onto the network.
Sovereign licence
Per country
For governments: the Network OS for a national network, with data that never leaves the country.
White label
For station builders
Station builders ship their stations with the Network OS under their own name.
Transaction fee
On third-party bookings
When an operator books a third-party antenna through the network, the antenna owner pays a fee from the booking.
Prices on request.
Ask for pricingTwo products, one network
Hardware where you need it, software that runs the network
Mobile Ground Station
A complete station in an ISO 40 ft high-cube container. It ships by sea like any container, sets up where it is needed, and belongs to the country that hosts it. Six configurations, from a single tracking dish to 7.3 m GEO dishes.
Explore the stationNetwork OS
One schedule for every station in the network: time and frequencies planned across sites, passes handed from station to station, and data synchronised between them under the owner's policies.
See the softwareWhy a container
It ships like freight and arrives complete
It ships like freight
ISO corner castings and a CSC plate: it lifts, stacks and travels by container ship and truck. Dishes, panels and masts fold or come off for transit.
It arrives complete
Operations, compute, RF, power and cooling travel inside the container, ready to connect to shore power, data and fibre.
The country owns it
The station belongs to the host country, which runs it on its own terms.
Inside the container
Five bays, one station
- A
NOC
Operator positions with dual monitors and a video wall.
- B
Compute
A rack of GPU compute, storage, networking and KVM, all front-access.
- C
RF
Software-defined radios and modems, up/down converters, LNA and HPA control, and a GPS-disciplined reference clock.
- D
Power
An LFP battery store behind an automatic transfer switch, so moving between shore or generator power and the batteries never interrupts the load.
- E
HVAC + I/O
Cooling ducted over every bay, and the inlets for shore power, data and fibre.
Configurations
Six configurations
From a single tracking dish for low-earth orbit to ground-mounted dishes for GEO and MEO links.
Render Unit 001 · POC
Single tracking dish
2.4 m S/X tracking dish that works one satellite per pass and folds for transit.
- UHF
- S
- X
Render Core unit
Phased-array primary aperture
Dual phased-array panels on posts above the roof.
- UHF
- S
- X
Render Max satellites
Multi-beam phased arrays
Four S/X phased-array panels tilted north, south, east and west, plus UHF.
- UHF
- S
- X
Render Max throughput
Ka + X high-rate dishes
A 2.4 m Ka dish and a 2.4 m S/X dual-polarisation dish.
- S
- X
- Ka
Render GEO/MEO · 4.5 m
Ground-mounted dish
4.5 m dish on its own foundation beyond the container end.
- S
- X
- Ku
- Ka
- L rx
Render GEO/MEO · 7.3 m
Ground-mounted dish
7.3 m dish on its own foundation beyond the container end.
- S
- X
- Ku
- Ka
- L rx
Each configuration has a full specification, covering rates, contacts per day, power and reach. Ask for it.
How it works
From booking to delivery
- 01
Schedule
Contacts are booked across every station in the network, and conflicts are resolved before the pass.
- 02
Track
As the satellite rises, the station points its dish or forms a beam with its phased arrays.
- 03
Receive
Software-defined radios demodulate and decode the link at the station: CCSDS, AX.25, KISS.
- 04
Route
The gateway authenticates and routes the data. Sync moves it between sites under the owner's policies.
- 05
Deliver
Data reaches the control hub and the operator's own systems.
Who it's for
Built for the people who need ground capability
Countries and space agencies
A national ground station the country owns, placed where it is needed.
Satellite operators
Contacts with your spacecraft through a network of stations on one schedule.
Organisations within a country
Research, telecom and public-service bodies that need satellite data on their own terms.
Ground-station operators
Bring your existing stations into one schedule with others.
What a station in-country does with the data, from fisheries patrols to drought warnings: Applications.
Questions
Is it available today?
Orbital Gate is in development. Early-access partners help shape the first units and the software.
Can we see the figures?
Yes, on request. Each configuration has a full specification, and the station designs can be explored in a 3D viewer with an access code.
Who owns the station?
The host country.
How does it get there?
By container ship and truck, like any 40 ft container. The dishes, panels and masts fold or come off for transit.
Which bands?
It depends on the configuration: UHF/VHF and S/X for TT&C, X and Ka for high-rate downlink, with Ku and L-band receive on the GEO/MEO dishes.
Can our existing stations join?
The software is built for federation: third-party stations join the same schedule.
Ground capability you own
Early-access partners help shape the first units and the software, and get the full specifications.