Matthew Mappin
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Venture builder leading SATELYX's vision, strategy, positioning, and commercial development across partners, investors, and new markets.
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Shared missions that prove space technology in orbit.
SATELYX runs shared in-orbit demonstration (IOD) missions for space hardware and software, then adds what works to the catalogue that future missions are built from.
Why SATELYX exists
SATELYX runs shared in-orbit demonstration (IOD) missions for space hardware and software. We integrate multiple customers’ payloads onto a standardised satellite bus and manage integration, launch arrangements, operations and data delivery, lowering the cost and burden of obtaining flight heritage. Every technology we validate joins the SATELYX catalogue of proven, redeployable building blocks, which we assemble into turnkey satellites and capabilities on demand, creating further commercial opportunities for the technology providers who flew with us.
Space technology teams often face a choice between building a complete satellite, accepting a constrained slot or coordinating platform, launch and operations across several suppliers. Each route asks them to take on work beyond the technology they need to prove. Validated technology joins the catalogue alongside the interfaces, telemetry and integration knowledge that SATELYX develops through each flight.
SATELYX acts as an Agile Prime: we own the mission end to end and assemble it from proven technology. IOD as a Service is the current entry point, and the growing catalogue creates the foundation for Capabilities on Demand.
Read more about our founding story in Why SATELYX Exists.
Our origin
Mission operators met platform builders.
SATELYX brings together people who worked on satellite programmes in Singapore and people who built scalable platforms on the ground.
Mission Operators
Aerospace and defence engineers with experience taking space technology from development through orbital operations.
Platform Builders
Distributed-systems and ecosystem architects who built scalable infrastructure on the ground and saw how repeatable systems could improve space missions.
Together they built SATELYX around a practical thesis: standardise shared missions, keep what each flight teaches, and turn successful validations into reusable capability.
How we work
Move Fast
We reduce repeated mission work by standardising interfaces, integration and operations wherever the mission allows.
Own the Outcome
We take responsibility for the shared mission, from integration planning through operations and data delivery.
Build for Reuse
Successful validation turns technology into reusable capability, while each mission adds proven integration knowledge to the catalogue.
Open Access
As proven capabilities accumulate and integration becomes standardised, technology providers gain a clearer path into future missions.
The team
One team across mission, platform and company building.
Kenneth Tong
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Deep-technology executive with more than two decades of experience across technical leadership, product strategy, engineering management, and company building.
Clement Chen
Co-founder & CSO
Investor and strategy operator leading business development, market positioning, and investor engagement, with experience evaluating hundreds of early-stage companies.
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João Fernandes
Co-founder & GM
Builds and runs the operating systems behind SATELYX, connecting business development, partner coordination, internal systems, and company-wide execution.
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Dr. Raymond Tsai
Scientific Advisor
Principal Engineer at the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA), lead engineer on Taiwanese national space programmes with experience across 15 satellite launches and applied research.
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Lucas Lee
CTO
Senior engineering and manufacturing leader with more than two decades of experience across advanced hardware, semiconductors, optics, and complex production environments.