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Pre-Seed · Smart Orbital Backhaul

Smart orbital backhaul. For every LEO constellation. Always on.

X-Comms is the shared orbital relay that filters, processes, and routes your satellite data in orbit, and delivers only what matters to 3GPP-compatible terrestrial networks.

One backbone. Every constellation. No ground network to build.

Smart Orbital Backhaul
3GPP Native
Always On · No Visibility Windows
In-Orbit Data Processing
Sovereignty on Demand
Zero Ground Network Required
LEO · MEO · GEO Architecture
Smart Orbital Backhaul
3GPP Native
Always On · No Visibility Windows
In-Orbit Data Processing
Sovereignty on Demand
Zero Ground Network Required
LEO · MEO · GEO Architecture
0×
Less raw data downlinked
vs. legacy infrastructure
24/7
Persistent connectivity
zero visibility windows
3 layers
LEO · MEO · GEO
orbital architecture
The Bottleneck

The backhaul problem every LEO operator knows,
and nobody fixes at the source.

01
Layer 01 · Physical Crisis

Ground infrastructure cannot scale.

By 2030, tens of thousands of active LEO satellites will generate tens of exabytes of raw data annually. Ground stations cannot keep up. Visibility windows last minutes. Network CAPEX grows linearly with every new constellation. The cost of reaching a satellite is quietly becoming the cost of operating it.

~10K+
Active LEO satellites expected by 2030
10+ EB/yr
Raw data generated annually
<10 min
Typical ground visibility window
Ground stations overwhelmed by LEO data volume
02
Layer 02 · Sovereignty Exposure

The vulnerability of terrestrial processing.

And when the data finally lands, it lands on someone else's soil. The moment a satellite's signal touches a ground station, it enters a jurisdiction the operator did not choose, where local laws, regulators, and intelligence services all have claims on whatever is processed on their territory. For defense, dual-use, or strategic civilian data, sovereignty is lost at the point of landing, and every additional ground station multiplies the exposure: more borders crossed invisibly, more regulatory surfaces, more attack vectors.

Jurisdictional
Every landing hands control to laws and regulators the operator did not choose
Compounded
Each new ground station multiplies attack surfaces and sovereignty leakage
Irreversible
Once data lands, what foreign authorities have seen cannot be unseen
Sovereignty exposure: satellite signals lighting up multiple ground stations across foreign jurisdictions
03
Layer 03 · Network Vacuum

Space builds satellites.
Nobody builds the network.

Today's orbital infrastructure is built the way telecom was built in the 1970s: vertical silos, proprietary protocols, zero interoperability. Every constellation ships its own ground segment, its own data chain, and its own backhaul logic, with no common standards and no network-layer thinking. The space industry has spent two decades perfecting the satellite and almost no time designing the network that connects them. That network cannot be an afterthought bolted on from the ground. It has to be native to orbit.

Vertical Silos
Every constellation runs its own ground segment, data chain, and backhaul logic
No Standards
Proprietary protocols block any shared, interoperable orbital network
Network Last
Two decades on the satellite, almost none on the network that connects them
Vertical silos: every constellation building its own ground segment from scratch
Enter X-Comms

A shared orbital backbone that fuses transport and intelligence.

X-Comms does not sell transport on one side and compute on the other. We fuse them. Every bit of data produced by a LEO constellation is filtered, processed, and routed by an active orchestration layer in orbit, the smart backhaul engine, which decides, in real time, what is downlinked, what is processed in-orbit, what is stored, and what stays entirely above the atmosphere. The result: operators downlink up to an order of magnitude less raw data, but deliver substantially more business value to their end customers.

The Shared Orbital Relay

Three orbital layers.
One smart backbone.

X-Comms fuses transport and intelligence at every layer.

Low Earth Orbit
Layer 01

LEO Access

X-Comms does not operate LEO satellites. LEO operators integrate an embedded X-Comms transceiver into their existing spacecraft. No ground network to build. No custom protocol to invent.

Embedded X-Comms Transceiver Any Spacecraft Zero Ground Infra
Medium Earth Orbit
Layer 02

MEO Transport

A mid-orbit constellation of relay satellites that continuously collects, routes, and aggregates traffic from every integrated LEO constellation. This is where the smart backhaul engine lives: filtering, prioritizing, and pre-processing in transit.

Smart Backhaul Engine In-Transit Processing Optical ISL Mesh
Geostationary Orbit
Layer 03

GEO Core

A geostationary layer hosting 5G/6G core network functions, in-orbit compute, and jurisdiction-flexible storage. Data that does not need to return to Earth never does.

5G/6G Core Functions In-Orbit Storage Sovereignty Control
How It Works

See the X-Comms relay in action.

Step 01
LEO satellites generate data continuously
Earth observation, SAR, IoT, and communications satellites produce massive volumes of raw data, but visibility windows to ground stations last only minutes per orbit. The data piles up with nowhere to go.
Step 02
Data flows to the MEO relay, always
A X-Comms provided transceiver on the LEO spacecraft connects directly to X-Comms MEO relay nodes. No ground network required. Data streams continuously regardless of orbit position or ground station availability.
Step 03
Smart backhaul engine filters in transit
The MEO smart backhaul engine filters, prioritizes, and pre-processes data in real time as it travels through the relay constellation. Noise stripped. Signal amplified. Data volume reduced up to 10× before reaching GEO or directly backhauled to ground.
Step 04
Signal delivered: only what matters reaches Earth
Filtered, high-value signal reaches the GEO core hosting 5G/6G network functions, in-orbit compute & storage. Only actionable intelligence is downlinked, delivered directly to operator networks or client systems. Full sovereignty maintained.
Earth Observation
SAR
IoT · Narrowband
Comms · Broadband
MEO Relay
GEO Core
Signal pulse
Ground Station
The Orbital Relay
LIVE
What you're seeing

Three-layer orbital architecture

LEO, MEO, and GEO satellites at their actual altitudes and inclinations. Orbits are drawn in both their visible front arc and faint back arc, so you see satellites pass in front of and behind Earth.

Communication beams

Inter-layer links, pulsing live

Orange pulses: LEO ↔ MEO (access to transport). Cyan pulses: MEO ↔ GEO (transport to core). Links dynamically rewire as satellites move into view of each other.

Why it matters

Always-on mesh in orbit

Any LEO satellite can reach the global backbone through multiple MEO relays. Route diversity means no single failure point, and no dependency on ground station passes.

Sovereignty On Demand

Your data. Your jurisdiction.
Your rules.

When your satellite data touches the ground, it enters someone else's jurisdiction. Someone else's laws. Someone else's regulators. For defense, dual-use, or strategic civilian data, that moment defines everything.

Choose your level
Each customer calibrates the level their mission and risk profile requires. No lock-in. No one-size-fits-all.
YOUR SATELLITE · YOUR DATA CUSTOMER GROUND NETWORK Encrypted bits land on your infrastructure. You decide what happens next. PROCESSED IN ORBIT ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE ONLY Raw frames never leave orbit. Classified outputs delivered directly. GEO SOVEREIGN VAULT NO TERRESTRIAL JURISDICTION DATA NEVER LANDS X-COMMS ORBITAL BACKBONE LEO GROUND
Sovereign by design
Built to deliver customized levels of privacy, security, and resilience to answer the most demanding requirements.
Defense-grade by default
End-to-end encryption, in-orbit processing isolation, and jurisdiction-flexible storage are core features, not paid add-ons.
Regulation-ready
Designed to satisfy any data sovereignty frameworks, NATO dual-use, and civilian export-control regimes without ground-network rework.
Why X-Comms

Five things no other orbital network offers.

01
Smart Backhauling
Transport and processing, fused.

Today, a LEO satellite captures data, waits for its next ground pass, and dumps the whole stream to Earth, then lets a remote data centre decide what was worth sending. X-Comms flips that model. Every bit produced by your constellation flows into an active orchestration layer in orbit, where it is classified, filtered, prioritized, and, when relevant, processed in real time.

Only what matters comes down. Raw frames stay above the atmosphere. Insights, alerts, and structured outputs reach the ground already usable, directly to the endpoints that need them: on terrestrial 5G/6G, inside the customer's own cloud, or into the operator's mission control.

  • Up to 10× less raw data downlinked, without losing a single insight.
  • In-orbit compute for latency-sensitive workloads: inference, anomaly detection, tasking feedback.
  • End-to-end service-level routing: mission-critical bits arrive first, bulk archive follows.
  • Operators stop paying for ground capacity they do not need, and start selling higher-margin products instead of raw bytes.
02
Always On
No more visibility windows.

Your constellation is connected 24/7 through a persistent MEO and GEO backbone. The days of waiting for the next ground station pass are over.

03
3GPP-Native, MNO-Compatible
Plug directly into the global telco ecosystem.

X-Comms speaks 3GPP from day one. Your satellite traffic enters 5G and 6G terrestrial networks like any other mobile flow. No gateways. No translation.

04
Sovereignty on Demand
Every operator chooses their own level.

From pure transport to in-orbit processing to jurisdiction-independent storage, X-Comms lets each customer calibrate the level of operational and data sovereignty their mission requires.

05
Shared Infrastructure, Disruptive Economics
One backbone, many operators.

By mutualizing the orbital relay across the entire LEO ecosystem, X-Comms reaches a cost structure that vertically integrated incumbents cannot match. Disruptive pricing is not a discount. It is a mathematical consequence of the model.

The Team

Built by people who have done it before.

Lucas Elicegui
CEO & Co-Founder
Lucas Elicegui
Why I started X-Comms

— When I entered the space industry at E-Space, two things struck me: space is nothing more than a passive mirror of the ground, with no embedded intelligence; and the sector ignores the standards and network culture that drove the telecom revolution. The trigger was understanding that the proliferation of LEOs on the same orbit makes these two blind spots untenable, and that no player exists capable of responding at the right scale. X-Comms was born from the conviction that we had to build a shared space infrastructure at scale, designed to boost an entire ecosystem rather than lock down a market, and that this mutualized-infrastructure logic is also the only credible path to bring sovereignty back into orbit.

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Dalibor Djuran
CTO & Co-Founder
Dalibor Djuran
Why I started X-Comms

— In my career I experienced first hand the operational nightmare of a 100% LEO architecture: managing everything at the low-orbit constellation level (processing, routing, connectivity, resilience) turns each satellite into a full system to be piloted individually, and makes complexity and costs explode as you scale. My trigger was understanding that the right answer is not to make LEOs smarter, but to offload them through a hierarchical three-layer architecture (LEO clients, MEO relays, GEO core), and to design these satellites in a modular way, on common platforms, to achieve unit costs with no equivalent on the market (a factor of 10 vs. traditional primes).

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400+
Spacecraft launched and
operated by the founding team
Dual
Expertise in satellite systems
and 5G/6G telecom standards
Pre-Seed
Round open. Investment memo
available on request
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