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Updated October 2026

Company overview

In-orbit demonstration (IOD) as a service.

SATELYX is a UK company that runs shared in-orbit demonstration (IOD) missions for space hardware and software. It has operations and commercial activity across Asia-Pacific and works with a regional partner network.

What we do
Run shared in-orbit demonstration (IOD) missions for space hardware and software through IOD as a Service.
Operating model
SATELYX acts as an Agile Prime: it owns the mission end to end and assembles it from proven technology.
Current product
IOD as a Service for accepted hardware and software.
Location
A UK company operating across APAC.
Current mission
VLEO Pathfinder targets Q4 2027 as the first SATELYX-led catalogue-validation mission.

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SATELYX is a UK company that runs shared in-orbit demonstration (IOD) missions for space hardware and software. It integrates multiple customers' payloads onto a standardised satellite bus and manages integration, launch arrangements, operations and data delivery, lowering the cost and burden of obtaining flight heritage. Every technology it validates joins the SATELYX catalogue of proven, redeployable building blocks, which SATELYX assembles into turnkey satellites and capabilities on demand, creating further commercial opportunities for the technology providers that flew with it. SATELYX has operations and commercial activity across Asia-Pacific.

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Leadership

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Matthew Mappin

Matthew Mappin

Co-founder and Co-CEO

Leads SATELYX's vision, strategy, positioning and commercial development.

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Kenneth Tong

Kenneth Tong

Co-founder and Co-CEO

Leads technical architecture, mission strategy and executive operations.

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Clement Chen

Clement Chen

Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Leads strategy, business development and investor engagement.

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João Fernandes

João Fernandes

Co-founder and General Manager

Runs company operations, commercial execution and internal systems.

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Dr. Raymond Tsai

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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Contact

Media enquiries

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