Our core project

Kaon: the sovereign small GEO satellite project

An agile GEO communications satellite, designed for sovereignty, resilience, traffic market fit, and congestion relief — at a fraction of the cost of conventional multi-tonne spacecraft.

Why we exist

Conventional GEO satellites — 4,000+ kg, 200+ M€ — no longer fit today's satcom problems.

Sovereignty

Financial and spectrum-regulatory hurdles keep sovereign satcom out of reach for many nations and corporations.

Resilience

Governments increasingly seek to disaggregate satellite capacity for agility and global reach.

Congestion

Evenly-spread GEO capacity fails to address “hotspots” (high user density) demands.

Continuity

Aging satellites reach end-of-life with no affordable path to renewal.

Market signal

Orders are shifting toward small GEO — exactly the market the Kaon project is built for.

The fade of satellite broadcast TV has collapsed the orders of large GEO satellites. Conventional operators experience strong difficulties in closing business plans with the current large Satcom offer. Small GEO offers:

Global GEO satellite orders: conventional vs small GEO, 2018-2026 YTD
Who it's for

One satellite series, four use-cases.

Government satcom

A sovereign path to GEO communications for nations facing financial and spectrum-regulatory hurdles to owning their own system. In its first Ku-band version, Kuonite — sold within a complete turnkey system — is an ideal key to convert each nation's ITU-R frequency allotments (AP-30B) and progressive ramp-up traffic into a national capacity build-up scheme (Nationsat). Supports isolated sovereign critical networks, disconnected from the cloud.

Defense & resilience

Disaggregated capacity across several smaller satellites instead of one large target — built for agility and resilience.

Commercial operators

A perfect asset to allow business models to be closed, allowing to hand over the traffic that cannot migrate to constellations when current satellites reach their end-of-life.

Large corporations

When it is about developing fully sovereign infrastructures allowing critical and essential communications to be routed independently from terrestrial networks and foreign constellations.

First generation of satellites

Kaonite

Kaonite

satellite series
Affordable sovereign SATCOM

High-performance communications.
Sovereignty within reach.

Sovereign control

Full control over your communications. No dependency, no compromise.

Affordable access

High-performance SATCOM at a fraction of the cost. Because sovereignty should be within reach.

Reliable connectivity

Secure, resilient and always-on connectivity, wherever your mission takes you.

Sovereign / milsatcom kickstart
  • 250–1,000 Mbps (Ka-band, regular terminals)
  • Up to 30 Gbps (Ka-band trunking)
  • 10 year lifetime
  • Secured control & spread spectrum
  • Agile frequency plan
  • 2 steerable coverages

A versatile design addressing sovereignty and resilience, coupled with a disruptive economical offer built on a French industry supply chain. Also available in X- and Ku-band. First launch targeted for early 2029.

Satellite Development Partners

The satellites will be integrated by Hemeria, and tested at Thales Alenia Space's proven facilities in Toulouse, with all environmental tests performed on a single floor to speed up and secure the overall sequence and the delivery.

Satellite inspectioin, Hemeria clean room
Satellite inspection — Hemeria clean room, Toulouse
Satellite integration, Thales Alenia Space clean room
Satellite integration — Thales Alenia Space clean room, Toulouse

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