Aquarian Space

Aquarian Space is the world's first high data rate internet service provider for the solar system. Our mission is to deliver the interplanetary communications infrastructure that makes possible the next wave of human expansion throughout our solar system.

Created: 2019-11-16

Updated: 2024-02-24

Company - Aquarian Space

Founded
Country: 2015; USA

Funding: $0.7M+

Website: https://www.aquarianspace.com/

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Classification: Space Utilities

Category: In-Space Communications Relay

Status: Early stage, Dormant

First launch: 2024

The world’s first commercial Space Based Interplanetary Communications Provider.

Introducing high data rate and secure communication for our solar system. Our latest technology is a high data rate communication network for deep space, SolNet. It takes our current deep space communications capacity and leaps the aerospace industry forward to allow for exponentially more data in deep space communication. The high data rate SolNet leverages the natural movements of the solar system, simplifying the complexity of our current deep space communications. It’s capable of providing continuous, uninterrupted command, control, and communication for the end user.

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Associates, an early SpaceX investor, has injected $650,000 in Aquarian Space to support plans to deploy its first lunar satellite in the first quarter of 2024.

The satellite is part of a constellation Aquarian Space is planning to improve communications above Earth’s orbit that John Rotondo, the startup’s chief technology officer, says is unequipped to handle a growing number of proposed missions to the moon.

Rotondo said the startup has plans to deploy a second satellite in 2025 to provide “continuous South Pole coverage,” but has yet to secure a launch agreement for either satellite.

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