Industrializing Access
to Orbit
Satelyx is the Agile Prime contractor transforming space access. We validate hardware once and sell repeatably, making orbit accessible.
Our Vision
The space industry talks about accessibility, but the economics tell a different story. Every mission still starts from scratch — custom hardware, custom integrations, custom operations. That means 2-3 years and $10-50M before a company even knows if its technology survives orbit.
This isn’t a technology problem. It’s a structural one. There’s no shared infrastructure, no reusable supply chain, no way to validate once and deploy many times. The result: only the best-funded players get to space, and the best ideas often never leave the lab.
Satelyx exists to fix that. Our Agile Prime model turns space hardware validation into a repeatable industrial process. Companies validate their technology through our platform, earn flight heritage, and enter a growing catalog of orbit-proven components — ready for government and commercial deployment without building a satellite program from the ground up.
We’re not building another satellite company. We’re building the mechanism that makes the entire industry faster, cheaper, and more open.
Read more about our founding story and mission in Why Satelyx Exists, or meet our founding team.
What Drives Us
Move Fast
Space is slow by default. We compress timelines by standardizing what others customize and reusing what others rebuild.
Own the Outcome
No finger-pointing, no handoffs into the void. Every mission, every integration, every customer touchpoint has a name next to it.
Build for Reuse
If it only works once, it's a project. If it works a hundred times, it's a platform. We build platforms.
Open Access
Orbit shouldn't be gated by who you know or how much you can spend. We lower the barrier so the best hardware wins, not the best-funded.
How We Got Here
Two paths converged at NTU Singapore — one from the launchpad, one from the protocol layer.
Mission Operators
Aerospace and defense engineers who spent careers getting hardware to orbit — and saw how much waste the industry tolerated every time a mission started from zero.
Platform Builders
Distributed systems and ecosystem architects who built scalable infrastructure on the ground — and recognized the same pattern could work above it.
When falling launch costs and commercial demand made a new model feasible, these two groups formed Satelyx at NTU Singapore. The thesis was simple: space needs an industrial platform, not more one-off projects. The missing mechanism was a contractor that validates hardware once and sells it repeatably — turning bespoke engineering into a scalable supply chain.
Leadership
Matthew Mappin
Co-CEO
Emerging tech operator; drove $300M+ blockchain revenue, $50M pre-commitments
Kenneth Tong
Co-CEO
15+ years as CTO/CEO across sectors, with satellite program leadership; drives Satelyx's strategy and growth
Lucas Lee
Co-CTO
15+ years in hardware, firmware, and systems engineering; leads technical innovation and satellite development
Jamie Geddes
Co-CTO
Full-stack engineer, leads software architecture and PoC delivery. Background in physics and systems integration
Willy Ko
COO
Serial entrepreneur, ex-Cisco/IBM engineer, co-founder of Blockchain Foundry; leads Satelyx's vision to commercialize space infrastructure
Dr. Raymond Tsai
Chief Scientist
Satellite engineer behind 15 launches; former lead at Taiwan's National Space Organization; heads scientific innovation