# 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. Founded 2018. Offices in Dubai, Noordwijk, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Satellize delivers the full stack of a national space program: 10–200 kg modular bus platforms, optical / SAR / hyperspectral / RF payloads, sovereign ground segment, mission-control software, and certified operator training. Heritage includes ExseedSat 1 (2018, India's first privately built satellite, in orbit) and ExseedSat 2 (2019), and the Tonga sovereign communications restoration (2022, after the Hunga Tonga eruption severed the kingdom's only undersea cable). Co-founded by Mahesh Murthy (Chief Executive) and Ashhar Farhan (Chief Technology Officer). ## Core pages - [Home](https://satellize.com/): Sovereignty in orbit — overview of the company, founders, offices and programs. - [Space Sovereignty](https://satellize.com/space-sovereignty): Why national space sovereignty matters in 2026 — foreign-owned constellations, dual-use satellites, the case for sovereign payload, ground segment and key material. - [Interferences](https://satellize.com/space-sovereignty/interferences): Documented timeline of moments when commercial and foreign satellites disrupted, denied or shaped sovereign action — Ukraine, Gaza, the South China Sea, and beyond. - [Our Offerings](https://satellize.com/our-offerings): The Satellize space stack — bus platforms, payloads, ground segment, mission control, operator certification. - [Experience](https://satellize.com/experience): Eight years of delivered space programs — five satellites in orbit since 2018, programs flown for kingdoms, ministries and agencies on four continents. - [Space Solutions](https://satellize.com/space-solutions): 734 satellite-enabled applications across 16 sovereign-relevant sections and 141 subsections — the Satellize Space Solutions Atlas. - [About Satellize](https://satellize.com/about-us): Founded 2018, offices in Dubai, Noordwijk, Mumbai, Hyderabad. Co-founders Mahesh Murthy (CEO) and Ashhar Farhan (CTO). - [Updates](https://satellize.com/updates): Programme launches, engineering updates and press. - [Contact](https://satellize.com/contact): Engineering and program contacts across all four offices. ## Atlas sections - [Connectivity, Communications & Digital Access](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/connectivity): 11 subsections, 69 applications — rural broadband, sovereign digital infrastructure, emergency communications, direct-to-device, broadcast, enterprise and quantum links. - [Navigation, Positioning, Timing & Autonomous Mobility](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/navigation): 9 subsections, 50 applications — sovereign PNT, aviation and maritime navigation, autonomous vehicles, precision timing for finance and grid. - [Agriculture, Food Security & Rural Land Systems](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/agriculture): 8 subsections, 43 applications — precision agriculture, food-security forecasting, agricultural risk intelligence, rural land tenure. - [Oceans, Maritime, Fisheries & Blue Economy](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/oceans): 9 subsections, 50 applications — vessel detection, fisheries enforcement, smart ports, blue-economy intelligence. - [Climate, Carbon, Nature & Environmental Compliance](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/climate): 10 subsections, 51 applications — carbon and methane monitoring, nature capital, deforestation, environmental compliance and climate finance verification. - [Weather, Disasters, Emergency Response & Resilience](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/weather): 10 subsections, 51 applications — flood, wildfire and cyclone systems, early warning, rapid mapping, restored communications. - [Defence, Intelligence & Military Space](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/defence): 10 subsections, 50 applications — ISR, tactical geospatial intelligence, missile warning, secure communications, sovereign signals intelligence. - [Borders, Public Safety, Law Enforcement & Critical Infrastructure Security](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/borders): 8 subsections, 40 applications — smart borders, coast guard, public safety, critical infrastructure protection. - [Cities, Land Administration, Property & Urban Intelligence](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/cities): 9 subsections, 45 applications — smart cities, urban planning, real estate intelligence, land administration. - [Infrastructure, Construction, Transport Corridors & Civil Works](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/infrastructure): 8 subsections, 40 applications — railway intelligence, road corridor monitoring, EPC monitoring, civil works. - [Energy, Mining, Utilities & Industrial Operations](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/energy): 8 subsections, 40 applications — oil & gas, renewables, mining, utilities, industrial operations. - [Finance, Insurance, Trade & Economic Intelligence](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/finance): 8 subsections, 40 applications — alternative data, parametric insurance, trade and commodity monitoring, economic intelligence. - [Health, Education, Humanitarian Development & Social Protection](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/health): 8 subsections, 40 applications — telemedicine, disease intelligence, public health, humanitarian logistics, social protection. - [Space Infrastructure, Operations & Orbital Safety](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/space-infrastructure): 8 subsections, 40 applications — space traffic management, debris monitoring, satellite servicing, orbital safety. - [Science, Exploration, Cislunar & Future Space Economy](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/science): 9 subsections, 45 applications — lunar infrastructure, deep-space communications, in-space manufacturing, future space economy. - [Frontier Space Systems](https://satellize.com/space-solutions/frontier-space-systems): 8 subsections, 40 applications — quantum and sovereign cryptographic infrastructure, orbital financial systems, orbital AI and compute infrastructure. ## Founders - [Mahesh Murthy — Co-founder, Chief Executive](https://satellize.com/about-us/mahesh) - [Ashhar Farhan — Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer](https://satellize.com/about-us/farhan) ## Questions, answered - [Questions hub](https://satellize.com/questions/): The questions governments actually ask about sovereign satellite programs, Earth observation, secure communications, launch, ground stations, operations, maritime awareness and disaster response — answered plainly. - [Sovereign satellite programs](https://satellize.com/questions/sovereign-satellite-programs/): Owning the whole chain, not renting pieces of it — 17 questions answered. - [Earth observation & imagery](https://satellize.com/questions/earth-observation/): Seeing your own territory with your own eyes — 15 questions answered. - [Secure satellite communications](https://satellize.com/questions/secure-satellite-communications/): Your traffic, your keys, your gateway — 15 questions answered. - [Launch & deployment](https://satellize.com/questions/satellite-launch/): Getting to orbit is the solved part — 15 questions answered. - [Ground stations & ground segment](https://satellize.com/questions/ground-stations/): Stations on your soil, or sovereignty on paper — 15 questions answered. - [Mission operations & training](https://satellize.com/questions/mission-operations-training/): Handover is the product — 15 questions answered. - [Maritime domain awareness](https://satellize.com/questions/maritime-domain-awareness/): The picture across your EEZ — 15 questions answered. - [Disaster response & early warning](https://satellize.com/questions/disaster-response/): From first alert to relief routing — 15 questions answered. ## Decisions, argued through - [Decisions hub](https://satellize.com/decisions/): The procurement choices governments weigh before committing to space: buy imagery or own the satellite, optical or SAR, one spacecraft or a constellation, hosted or dedicated, leased capacity or a sovereign network. Each argued through to a verdict. - [Buy satellite imagery, or own the satellite?](https://satellize.com/decisions/buy-imagery-or-own-a-satellite/): Buying imagery is cheap to start and expensive to depend on. Owning a satellite is the reverse. The right answer depends on how often you task, what you task in a crisis, and whose government sits between you and your own pictures. - [Optical or SAR?](https://satellize.com/decisions/optical-or-sar/): Optical sensors produce imagery people can read without training; radar produces data that ignores cloud and darkness. Neither replaces the other, and the sequencing question matters more than the either-or question most tenders ask. - [One satellite, or a constellation?](https://satellize.com/decisions/one-satellite-or-a-constellation/): A single satellite proves a country can operate in orbit. A constellation changes what the country can decide. The mistake is specifying one while budgeting for the other, or buying resolution when the mission needed revisit. - [A dedicated satellite, or a hosted payload?](https://satellize.com/decisions/dedicated-satellite-or-hosted-payload/): Hosting your instrument on another operator's satellite trades money and schedule for control. Sometimes that trade is exactly right. It stops being right the moment the payload's purpose is sovereign. - [Lease satellite capacity, or own the network?](https://satellize.com/decisions/lease-satellite-capacity-or-own-the-network/): Leased bandwidth is fast to procure and easy to grow. It is also revocable by whoever operates the payload and the gateway. For civilian broadband that risk is a footnote; for national command traffic it is the whole question. ## Conventions The full machine-readable URL list is available at [sitemap.xml](https://satellize.com/sitemap.xml). Each application page lives at `/space-solutions/{section-slug}/{subsection-slug}/{application-slug}` — there are 734 such application pages across 16 sections and 141 subsections (the Satellize Space Solutions Atlas). Each incident page lives at `/space-sovereignty/incidents/{slug}`. Each delivered program lives at `/experience/{slug}`.