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Expertise
Building satellites, payloads, ground systems, mission control software and trained operators has historically taken nations twenty to thirty years of in-house investment to develop. Most countries simply ran out of patience.
Independent · Sovereign · Turnkey
Own your own space.
You can't build your nation on someone else's space program.
Recent events have shown that every country needs its sovereign space infrastructure.
Satellize is an independent firm that delivers the whole of a space program: mission design, satellites, sensors, launch, ground stations, mission control and the people trained to run them. And if you never want to touch a spacecraft, we sell the results instead: deep satellite-data analytics, run by our in-house analysts and science team.
From the recordContact sheet · 05 frames
Space Sovereignty
When someone else owns your space, they own you.
History is full of nations whose progress was blunted, paused or reversed because someone else controlled the satellite, the signal or the launch slot. Five examples, well-documented. And there are another 50 more here.
Jul 2026
Myanmar
SpaceX geofencing cuts Starlink in Myanmar conflict zones
Enforcement of SpaceX's own registration rules threatens to switch off Starlink across Myanmar's conflict zones, where it had become the main internet link for early-warning systems, schools, ambulances and independent media after the state destroyed local networks.
Apr 2026
USA · Iran · global
Planet Labs pulls Iran imagery at US request
In April 2026 Planet Labs confirms it is indefinitely withholding satellite imagery of the Iran war from commercial customers at the US government's request. Maxar and others quietly follow. The Gaza precedent has now been formalised across an entire region.
May 2025
Israel · Gaza · global
Khuza'a is razed — from orbit, the world watches
Amnesty International publishes satellite imagery showing the southern Gaza town of Khuza'a flattened almost in its entirety between January and May 2025. The release becomes a textbook case of evidence the public would not otherwise have.
Jan 2025
Russia · NATO · EU
Sustained Baltic GNSS jamming
Sustained GNSS jamming, attributed to Russian sources in Kaliningrad, forces commercial airlines to divert and disables civilian receivers across the Baltic. The EU and NATO file formal protests; the jamming continues.
Feb 2024
USA · UK · Russia
Space-based nuclear ASAT, declassified
Washington and London declassify intelligence indicating Russian development of a space-based nuclear ASAT capability. The treaty regime built in 1967 to prevent precisely this is, on paper, still in force.
See the full record of interferencesForty-plus documented incidents, 1976 – 2026
Who needs a satellite
Sixteen sectors that already run on space.
Sovereign space programmes are not luxuries; they are infrastructure. The 16 sectors here with 141 sub-sectors and 734 applications already run on satellite data. The question is whether the benefits will accrue to you, or to someone else who owns the infrastructure while flying over you.
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Connectivity, Communications & Digital Access
11 subsections · 69 applications
- Rural & Remote Connectivity
- Sovereign Digital Infrastructure
- Emergency Communications
- Direct-to-Device Ecosystems
- +7 more
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02
Navigation, Positioning, Timing & Autonomous Mobility
9 subsections · 50 applications
- Sovereign PNT Systems
- Aviation Navigation
- Maritime Navigation
- Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
- +5 more
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03
Agriculture, Food Security & Rural Land Systems
8 subsections · 43 applications
- Precision Agriculture
- Food Security Systems
- Agricultural Risk Intelligence
- Smart Irrigation
- +4 more
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04
Oceans, Maritime, Fisheries & Blue Economy
9 subsections · 50 applications
- Maritime Intelligence
- Fisheries Intelligence
- Smart Ports
- Offshore Infrastructure
- +5 more
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Climate, Carbon, Nature & Environmental Compliance
10 subsections · 51 applications
- Carbon Intelligence
- Methane Monitoring
- Nature Capital Systems
- Biodiversity Intelligence
- +6 more
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Weather, Disasters, Emergency Response & Resilience
10 subsections · 51 applications
- Flood Intelligence
- Wildfire Monitoring
- Cyclone Systems
- Earthquake Response
- +6 more
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Defence, Intelligence & Military Space
10 subsections · 50 applications
- ISR Systems
- Tactical Geospatial Intelligence
- Missile Warning
- RF Intelligence
- +6 more
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Borders, Public Safety, Law Enforcement & Critical Infrastructure Security
8 subsections · 40 applications
- Smart Borders
- Coast Guard Operations
- Public Safety Intelligence
- Crowd Intelligence
- +4 more
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Cities, Land Administration, Property & Urban Intelligence
9 subsections · 45 applications
- Smart Cities
- Urban Planning
- Real Estate Intelligence
- Urban Heat Monitoring
- +5 more
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Infrastructure, Construction, Transport Corridors & Civil Works
8 subsections · 40 applications
- Railway Intelligence
- Road Corridor Monitoring
- EPC Monitoring
- Airport Infrastructure
- +4 more
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Energy, Mining, Utilities & Industrial Operations
8 subsections · 40 applications
- Oil & Gas Intelligence
- Renewable Energy Monitoring
- Mining Intelligence
- Grid Resilience
- +4 more
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Finance, Insurance, Trade & Economic Intelligence
8 subsections · 40 applications
- Insurance Intelligence
- Trade Intelligence
- Commodity Monitoring
- Supply Chain Systems
- +4 more
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Health, Education, Humanitarian Development & Social Protection
8 subsections · 40 applications
- Telemedicine
- Disease Intelligence
- Public Health Systems
- Refugee Support
- +4 more
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Space Infrastructure, Operations & Orbital Safety
8 subsections · 40 applications
- Space Traffic Management
- Orbital Debris Monitoring
- Satellite Servicing
- Optical Interlinks
- +4 more
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Science, Exploration, Cislunar & Future Space Economy
9 subsections · 45 applications
- Lunar Infrastructure
- Deep Space Communications
- Space Manufacturing
- Planetary Science
- +5 more
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Frontier Space Systems
8 subsections · 40 applications
- Quantum & Sovereign Cryptographic Infrastructure
- Frontier Orbital Financial Systems
- Orbital AI & Compute Infrastructure
- Autonomous Machine Economies
- +4 more
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Our Updates
What we've been flying, writing and signing.
PressAugust 2025
Via Satellite — “10 Smallsat Startups to Watch in 2025”
Satellize is featured in Via Satellite's annual smallsat startups-to-watch list, alongside the global cohort of companies redefining how nano- and microsatellite programs get built and operated.
PressMarch 2025
Via Satellite — “The 10 Hottest Satellite Companies in 2025”
Satellize appears in Via Satellite's 2025 hot-companies list — recognising the shift from one-off cubesat launches to full-stack national space programs as the company's defining bet.
Company2024
Exseed Space rebrands to Satellize
After six years building India's first private satellite heritage under the Exseed Space name, the company rebrands to Satellize to reflect the mature mission: full-stack sovereign space programs for allied nations.
The two roadblocks
For decades only superpowers could afford a real space program. Two walls kept everyone else out.
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Money
A traditional sovereign program cost billions of dollars, spread across decades, with no certainty of operational capability at the end. Most national budgets — and most political cycles — could not absorb that arithmetic.
Why Satellize
We bring space closer.
Satellize was built specifically to bring both walls down — and to put a credible national space program inside the budget and timeline of any committed state.
Proven expertise
Five satellites in orbit.
Eight years of flight heritage.
Since 2018 we have designed, built, integrated and operated satellites flown on SpaceX, ISRO and Arianespace launchers. Our core team brings deep flight experience from ISRO, NASA, ESA and the global aerospace primes — payloads, bus architecture, radiation hardening, ground links, and mission ops.
See our flight heritageHonest economics
Among the most affordable programs on the planet.
We engineer in India, integrate to global standards, and price to the realities of national budgets — not to the margins of listed primes. A sovereign first-light program now starts in the low tens of millions, not in the billions, with operations inside eighteen months.
See the full stackAround the site
Read deeper.
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Space Sovereignty
Why owning your space matters — and the long, well-documented history of what it costs when you don't.
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Our Offerings
Two ways to buy. The whole space stack, from mission design to trained operators. Or just the answers, as satellite-data analytics run by our own analysts and scientists.
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Experience
Five satellites in orbit since 2018. Programs flown for kingdoms, ministries and agencies on four continents.
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Space Solutions
Space, applied — to agriculture, defence, disaster response, communications, resource discovery and more.
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Questions
The questions governments actually ask about space programs, answered plainly: costs, timelines, sovereignty, and what can go wrong.
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About us
Founded by Mahesh Murthy and Ashhar Farhan with a team of veteran engineers from ISRO, NASA, ESA and the global aerospace primes.
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Contact
Brief our team. Tell us what your nation needs to own. We'll show you how.
By institution
Twelve institutions. One sovereign answer.
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Defence ministries
ISR, force protection, denied-environment PNT
02
Foreign ministries
Treaty verification, sanctions monitoring
03
Intelligence services
Pattern of life, infrastructure tracking
04
Disaster management agencies
Rapid mapping, search and rescue
05
Coast guards and navies
Maritime domain awareness, EEZ enforcement
06
Border forces
Illicit crossings, smuggling routes
07
Agriculture ministries
Crop yields, drought, subsidy verification
08
Environment and climate agencies
Emissions, deforestation, glacial retreat
09
Mines and resources ministries
Geology, exploration, illegal mining
10
Urban planning and housing
Informal settlements, infrastructure decay
11
Telecom and broadcast authorities
Sovereign Ku/Ka backhaul and continuity
12
Civil aviation and shipping
PNT, weather, route optimisation
About Satellize
Frequently asked
- What is Satellize?
- Satellize is a privately held space company that designs, builds and operates whole sovereign satellite programs — payload, ground segment, mission control and operator training — for governments, ministries and national agencies that refuse to depend on foreign-owned constellations.
- What does sovereign space mean?
- A sovereign space program is one where the host nation owns the satellites, the ground segment, the encryption keys and the operating doctrine. No foreign government, commercial operator or cloud provider can throttle, geofence, deny or read what flows through it.
- Where is Satellize based?
- Satellize was founded in 2018 and operates from Dubai (UAE), Noordwijk (Netherlands), Mumbai and Hyderabad (India), with delivered programs across Asia, the Pacific, the Gulf and the Indian Ocean rim.
- Who founded Satellize?
- Satellize was co-founded by Mahesh Murthy (Chief Executive) and Ashhar Farhan (Chief Technology Officer). Farhan led India's first private satellite into orbit in 2018; Murthy has built and exited multiple technology companies across India and the United States.
- What kinds of programs does Satellize deliver?
- Satellize delivers complete national space programs: 10 to 200 kg modular bus platforms, optical, SAR, hyperspectral and RF payloads, sovereign ground segment, mission-control software and certified operator training. Past programs include Tonga's sovereign satellite restoration after the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption.
- How long does a sovereign satellite program take?
- A first-launch sovereign program typically runs 18 to 36 months from contract to operational handover, depending on payload complexity and ground-segment scope. Emergency restoration programs (such as the Tonga 2022 deployment) can re-establish sovereign capability in days using pre-staged hardware.
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