Skyloom Global

Skyloom Global Corp. is a telecommunications company based in Broomfield, Colorado, focused on developing and deploying space-based telecommunication infrastructure for global data transport services. The company specializes in optical communication technologies, which enable high-bandwidth connections for satellite-to-satellite, satellite-to-Earth, and Earth-to-satellite transmissions. 

Skyloom's offerings include 

1. V’ger: Optical communications terminals (OCTs) that support high bandwidth connections from low-Earth orbit (LEO), LEO-ground to LEO-airborne, and LEO-maritime. It supports a speed of 1–10 Gbps. Skyloom's OCT technology reportedly can transmit 10–100x more data back to Earth than the current radio frequency (RF) systems.
2. Scotty: A user terminal for LEO satellites accessing Skyloom's network, which enables multi-Gbps data transfer from LEO to on-the-cloud. It connects satellites in LEO to multi-user optical relay satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO), supporting LEO-GEO links to up to 20 Gbps. 
3. Uhura: A geostationary optical relay satellite for GEO-LEO and GEO-ground data transfer, which supports a speed of up to 20 Gbps for LEO to GEO OCT and GEO-ground OCT. Skyloom planned to deploy the first node for Asia-Pacific coverage in Q4 2024 (November 2024). 
4. Kirk: An optical ground station that can be installed at a traditional ground station, co-located with existing or planned data centers.

In September 2023, the company achieved the AS 9100 Certification for product assurance manufacturing. In September 2024, it passed the US Space Development Agency's (SDA’s) interoperability qualification process, confirming the interoperability of its optical terminals with SDA's ground interface and other optical terminal suppliers. 

Key customers and partnerships

Skyloom established several key partnerships and customer relationships in the aerospace and satellite communications sectors, including

1. NEC Corporation to develop high-speed optical communication equipment for multi-orbit satellite networks (March 2024) 
2. Satellogic, a company that offers sub-meter Earth observation data and satellite technology to integrate Skyloom's OCT onto Satellogic satellites to test new methods of high-resolution Earth observation data delivery (September 2023)
3. Axiom Space to integrate and showcase high data-rate optical inter-satellite links on the first module of a commercial space station (December 2023)
4. Space Compass, a joint venture between NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT, to develop GEO-based optical communications network infrastructure (September 2022).

In October 2024, Skyloom announced a joint venture with Officina Stellare, an Italian space technology company, to establish Skyloom Europe. This venture aimed to create a high-throughput production plant in Italy for manufacturing optical communication terminals, focusing on advanced encryption techniques and quantum coding for airborne and space applications.