Your Partner from
Prototype to Orbit
SATELYX team: aerospace veterans with TASA advisory and 15+ satellite launches. We validate space technology in orbit and turn it into deployable capability.
Our Mission & 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 $5-15M+ before a company even knows if its technology survives orbit. The result: the best ideas often never leave the lab, and the best-funded players are the only ones who get to space.
This isn’t a technology problem. It’s a structural one. There’s no shared infrastructure, no reusable supply chain, no way to prove something once and deploy it many times.
SATELYX exists to fix that. We partner with technology developers to validate their systems on shared missions. What works gets added to a growing catalog of flight-proven components, becoming reusable building blocks for future deployments. Every mission compounds. Every validation makes the next deployment faster and cheaper.
We’re not building another satellite company. We’re building the infrastructure that turns space into something anyone can build on. Today, we validate space technology on shared missions and build the catalog. As that catalog grows and integration becomes standardized, the model opens up. Trusted capabilities accumulate, timelines compress, and access expands. Providers integrate directly. Customers deploy outcomes on demand. Space stops being a series of bespoke projects and starts functioning as a persistent layer. Every mission we fly today brings it closer.
Real outcomes require more than a slot in orbit. They require the right platform, mission architecture, operating model, and evidence package. That’s what we build.
Read more about our founding story in Why SATELYX Exists.
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
As capabilities accumulate and integration becomes standardized, we open the interface. The best technology wins, not the best-funded.
How We Got Here
Aerospace veterans and platform builders found each other in Singapore. When falling launch costs made a new model feasible, they formed SATELYX.
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 in Singapore. The thesis was simple: space needs infrastructure you can build on, not more one-off projects. Prove technology once, catalog it, and make it available for every mission that follows.
Leadership
Matthew Mappin
Co-CEO
Venture builder leading SATELYX's vision, strategy, positioning, and commercial development across partners, investors, and new markets.
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Kenneth Tong
Co-CEO
Deep-technology executive with more than two decades of experience across technical leadership, product strategy, engineering management, and company building.
Lucas Lee
Co-CTO
Senior engineering and manufacturing leader with more than two decades of experience across advanced hardware, semiconductors, optics, and complex production environments.
James Geddes
Co-CTO
Full-stack engineer leading software architecture and proof-of-concept delivery, with a background in physics, platform engineering, and systems integration.
Willy Ko
COO
Operator and engineer with experience across Cisco, IBM, infrastructure, and company building; leads operations, grants, and the structures that support execution.
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Clement Chen
CSO
Investor and strategy operator supporting business development, market positioning, and investor-facing strategy, with experience evaluating hundreds of early-stage companies.
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Dr. Raymond Tsai
Scientific Advisor
Senior space engineer and TASA advisor with experience across 15 satellite launches, applied research, and national space programs.
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João Fernandes
General Manager
Founding team operator connecting strategy to delivery across business development, internal systems, partner coordination, and company-wide execution.
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