Orbital Gate
Ground segment delivered
The country owns the landing site and the licence. We run the software on it: Network OS, software radios and modems, site operations, security and training, at a partner data centre or in a unit that moves.
- 30%
- local ownership required of gateway licensees in Kenya; South Africa holds Starlink to the same ruleAfrican Business, Jul 2026
- 300+
- gateway stations planned by Amazon Leo, five dishes eachDCD, 2026
- US$15M
- capex for one fixed OneWeb gateway in Angola, four years to go liveDeveloping Telecoms, Jun 2025
Orbital Gate packages: small islands and Africa
Three lines, one platform
Rendering: a Gate site at a partner data centre The Gate
Landing for LEO operators at a partner data centre: open waveforms first, licensed operator waveforms next.
The Gate
Rendering: Ka + X high-rate dishes Ground-station network
Earth-observation receive and TT&C passes, scheduled across owned and federated stations.
Ground-station network
Rendering: a field unit with multi-constellation backhaul over LEO terminals Disaster recovery
A unit that drives in when fibre is cut: multi-constellation backhaul, local 5G, edge firewall.
Disaster recovery
Who holds what
- Local entity
- Holds the licence, runs the site, buys it to ownership
- Orbital Gate
- Network OS, software radios, site operations, security, training
- Operator
- Sells capacity on open waveforms, or licenses its own waveform
Kenya first
The first site is a partner data centre in Nairobi
One Mark I dish and our software radio chain, received through our own stack. Kenya has hyperscale data centres (iXAfrica, Digital Realty NBO2), an open gateway licence path (IGSS and Landing Rights Authorisation) and a recent reason to want resilience: the EASSy and Seacom cables were cut in May 2024.