IOD as a Service

Prove your space technology in orbit.

Shared in-orbit demonstration (IOD) missions for hardware and software, with the bus, integration, launch and operations handled by SATELYX.

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In-orbit demonstration and validation

A complete mission around the technology you need to prove.

SATELYX runs shared in-orbit demonstration (IOD) missions for space hardware and software. We integrate your hardware or software into a shared mission and manage the bus, integration, launch, operations and data delivery, so you get flight results without building a satellite programme.

Software

Models, algorithms and data pipelines for onboard operation.

Hardware

Payloads and space technology that need flight evidence.

How an IOD mission works

How shared IOD works

Multiple technologies. One managed mission.

SATELYX combines software and space technology from multiple customers on one standardised bus, then manages the shared mission around them.

Customer technologies

Software

Space technology

SATELYX shared bus

One standardised satellite platform.

Shared IOD mission

Multiple customers. One managed mission.

SATELYX manages

Integration
Launch capacity
Operations
Data delivery

VLEO Pathfinder targets Q4 2027 as the first SATELYX-led catalogue validation mission.

The IOD bus

A bus built for IOD.

SATELYX is building a standardised, multi-payload bus for repeated in-orbit demonstrations.

Standardised: Known core interfaces.
Multi-payload: Several technologies on one bus.
Repeatable: Integration knowledge retained.

The Catalogue

Successful validation should make a technology easier to fly again.

Every technology we validate joins the SATELYX catalogue of proven, redeployable building blocks, which we assemble into turnkey satellites and capabilities on demand for governments and companies.