Fleet Space exists to connect everything. It is estimated that by 2025 there will be 75 billion devices across the globe, all needing an internet connection. Yet, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars already spent building the connectivity infrastructure we currently have, the 3G, 4G and 5G networks, we still only connect approximately 40% of the global population.

On top of this, there are huge gaps in connectivity in remote and rural settings. To build the connectivity infrastructure required to connect these 75 billion devices, using current connectivity solutions, it will cost double the world’s total GDP.

The complexity across the connectivity ecosystem and lack of integrated future-focused solutions able to cost-effectively scale led Fleet Space founders Flavia Tata Nardini and Matthew Pearson to look to space for a viable solution. 

Fleet Space exists to build a reliable connectivity solution able to provide internet connectivity across the whole globe to better support critical infrastructure, mining and remote operations. Fleet Space is truly an agile, next-generation connectivity company. Their mission is to ‘Connect Everything’ using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with their free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.

Fleet Space is revolutionising traditional satellite connectivity solutions by building and deploying a global network of 140 nanosatellites in LEO (Low Earth Orbit). This satellite network will eventually be capable of connecting far more than 75 billion devices. Thanks to advances in technology and the introduction of 3D printing, Fleet Space engineers have been working towards designing and manufacturing small satellites which are proving to be a gamechanger for the space industry. Traditional satellites can be the size of a school bus. Now companies like Fleet Space can provide worldwide services with nanosatellites the size of a personal computer. What’s more, Fleet Space’s patented beam-forming technology means they can build a nanosatellite that is 10X more powerful than other satellites their size, enabling Fleet Space to offer industrial-grade connectivity, even with such a compact satellite design.

The team have developed a world-class satellite weighing just 24 kilograms and with just a 3 month build time. Fleet Space is able to build and deploy connectivity solutions at a fraction of the cost and time of their competitors. Fleet Space made history by launching Australia’s first commercial nanosatellites at the end of 2018, and over the course of three weeks, Proxima 1 & 2 and Centauri 1 & 2 were launched into LEO. Fleet Space is continuing its work on the Centauri Program, launching its next batch of satellites in the first half of 2021.