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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Building the infrastructure for repeatable space capability.
We are building shared missions that make in-orbit demonstration more useful, then preserve what each successful flight teaches.
Why SATELYX exists
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.
SATELYX runs shared IOD missions and takes responsibility for the bus, integration, operations, data delivery and launch capacity. Technology developers focus on their hardware or software while we factor it into the mission and build the evidence needed from orbit.
Successful validation turns technology into reusable capability. Validated technology joins the catalog for future missions, alongside the interfaces, telemetry and integration knowledge that SATELYX develops through each flight.
This is repeatable infrastructure for responsive space. IOD as a Service is the current entry point, and the growing catalog 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 catalog.
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
Chief Scientist
Principal Engineer at the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA), with 15 years at the agency and 15 missions launched. Served as lead engineer on multiple Taiwanese satellite programmes, including FORMOSAT-8.
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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.