Satlyt

Contacts

• Official website: https://satlyt.ai/
• Footer contact address (founders): [email protected]
• Contact form (partnership, product, careers, other): https://satlyt.ai/contact
• Media contact (per Oct 1, 2026 press release): [email protected]

Locations

Looking into Satlyt? What to check

Satlyt Inc sells software to satellite operators and software developers, not to consumers. Its own homepage says: "Satellites collect more data than they can send. Satlyt's software runs AI on board, so missions process data in orbit and downlink only what matters." Its Integration page describes "the runtime and orchestration layer to deploy, operate, and manage applications in orbit," with one path "For satellite operators" ("Run Satlyt on your existing onboard compute and mission network") and one "For software partners." No consumer subscription, app, store or retail product was identified on satlyt.ai on 2026-10-01.

Practical steps.

• Official channels: the contact form at satlyt.ai/contact (its Interest menu lists Partnership, Investment, Careers, Product / Configurator and Other) and [email protected], which appears in the site footer. The October 1, 2026 press release lists [email protected] as its media contact.
• Terms and refunds: no terms of service, privacy policy, refund or cancellation page was found. The site's navigation and footer list no such links, and satlyt.ai/privacy and satlyt.ai/terms returned blank pages on 2026-10-01. No public terms, refund or cancellation policy was identified on that date. A partner or customer who is given an agreement, order form or pricing document can request a copy and keep it. The blog newsletter form says "Unsubscribe at any time."
• If a message, invoice or payment request mentions Satlyt, compare the sender's domain with satlyt.ai, the address Satlyt's press release gives ("Learn more at satlyt.ai"), and confirm through the channels above before acting.
• To report a complaint about any business: the FTC's ReportFraud page lets people report fraud, "a company, or an unwanted call," and notes "We can't resolve your individual report." The California Attorney General's consumer page says "If you would like to report a complaint about a business, check the complaint referral table to find the government agency that regulates that business." (Satlyt gives California as its U.S. location.)

Company background

Entity. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's TSDR record for the standard-character service mark SATLYT (Reg. No. 8341233, application filed August 29, 2025, registered July 14, 2026) lists the owner as "Satlyt Inc," a corporation organized in Delaware, for software-as-a-service in "in-orbit edge computing for workload orchestration, application deployment, and resource management on satellite computing nodes" and related fields. USAspending.gov lists the recipient of a NASA contract as "SATLYT INC." The company's own site does not publish a legal-entity line, and a state business-registry search was not completed (California's bizfile search returned a CAPTCHA-style security check).

Locations. The press release is datelined Sunnyvale, says "Satlyt's U.S. headquarters is in Sunnyvale, USA, and its Africa headquarters is in Nairobi, Kenya," and mentions a Kenyan subsidiary (not named). TechCrunch also gives Sunnyvale and Nairobi. The satlyt.ai footer shows "San Francisco, CA," and its job listings say "San Francisco Bay Area." Street addresses in federal records are not reproduced here.

People. The press release names Rama Afullo as Founder & CEO and Nelson Psenjen as CTO, with Leina Moli (Senior Space Software Engineer) and Junn Wangari (Senior Space Systems Engineer) in the team photo caption. TechCrunch describes Afullo as a Kenyan American engineer who previously worked in Google's cloud business and had a brief stint at SpaceX's Starlink in 2024. TechCabal and Payload report the company was founded in 2024; a May 2025 partnership release hosted on Star Catcher Industries' site says "Satlyt was founded in July 2024 by space engineer Rama Afullo" (a company description, not a registry date).

Funding, as announced. According to the October 1, 2026 press release and TechCrunch, Satlyt raised an $8 million seed round led by non sibi ventures (Houston), with participation from TLCOM, Antler, Slauson & Co., Launch Africa Ventures, Enza Capital, Askya Investment Partners, Demos, BAG Collective, Gaingels, Axian Investment and others. TechCrunch says Afullo "exclusively told TechCrunch" of the round. Payload reports that the round "brings Satlyt's total funds to 'well past $10M,'" according to Afullo. Satlyt's own blog says it raised pre-seed funding from investors including Antler VC and XSLA Ventures, and a May 2025 release hosted on Star Catcher's site says Satlyt "raised a Pre-seed round soon thereafter" after its founding. These are company and press statements; no SEC filing for the round itself was found. A separate Form D filed January 8, 2026 on EDGAR is for a pooled investment vehicle named "BAG-Satlyt Nov 2025 a Series of CGF2021 LLC" (Delaware; administrator Sydecar LLC), which is a different entity from Satlyt Inc.

What it says it does. Satlyt says its software lets operators run AI and applications on computing hardware already aboard spacecraft, and that it aims over time to coordinate computing across spacecraft from different operators. Its press release states its "current capabilities focus on processing within individual spacecraft" and that the planned deployment "does not yet demonstrate computing coordinated across multiple spacecraft." TechCabal reports Afullo saying satellite operators pay to install the software, that Satlyt is running paid pilots with aerospace and defense contractors, and that space agencies pay for specific technology development.

Onboard AI demonstration. TechCrunch reports that Satlyt "deployed Google DeepMind's Gemma AI model onboard a spacecraft operated by Momentus" and that the model cut the size of a transmission about onboard software errors "by more than 60%." A Google DeepMind case study describes a quantized Gemma 3 1B model run onboard a satellite and, in fault-injection benchmarks, reductions of the diagnostic payload from 1,319 to 469 bytes (64.4 percent) and from 1,318 to 464 bytes (64.8 percent). Momentus's own Vigoride 7 launch release, which was opened for this check, does not mention Satlyt.

NASA work. SBIR.gov lists Satlyt as awardee of an STTR Phase I award from NASA (contract 80NSSC25C0340, "Autonomous QoS Optimization for Delay-Tolerant Mobile Edge Cloud and Content Delivery," research institution University of Houston, award dates September 16, 2025 to October 28, 2026) with a total award amount of $149,529; USAspending.gov shows $179,529 for the same contract number. Satlyt's own blog post, headlined "Satlyt Secures $4M in NASA Support Across Five Centers," describes the Phase I award as "valued at $150,000" and a possible follow-on Phase II award of $850,000, and separately says NASA "will contribute a combined $3 million in civil service support" to two collaboration proposals with NASA centers; Payload describes the STTR contract as having a "total value of $4M." These figures come from different sources, describe different things in some cases, and are not added together or reconciled here; the $4 million headline is the company's characterization, not the value of contract 80NSSC25C0340.

Partners named by Satlyt. Satlyt's own announcement, datelined Sunnyvale, January 2026, says it "entered into a commercial license agreement" with The Aerospace Corporation for its DiskSat technology; Aerospace's technology-transfer director is quoted welcoming Satlyt as a partner. A May 2025 release on Star Catcher Industries' site describes a strategic partnership under which Star Catcher and Satlyt "are combining forces to deliver a bundled solution" pairing edge computing with orbital power. Satlyt's careers page, opened on 2026-10-01, lists six open roles (for example Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer, Customer Success & Mission Deployment Lead, Head of Finance & Business Planning), mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Launch of Transporter-18 and the host satellite (checked 2026-10-19). The press release says the next deployment is "aboard a third-party spacecraft on SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission, targeted for October 1" and adds that "Launch and successful onboard execution are separate milestones." TechCrunch says the spacecraft is built by TakeMe2Space, an Indian startup, with three customers on the mission (NASA, Stellerian and TakeMe2Space). Space.com reports that the mission lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 2:32 p.m. EDT (1832 GMT) on October 1, 2026; NASASpaceflight gives the same time and says the 130 payloads were released between T+54:22 and T+1:05:15. Via Satellite reports that the mission included four orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) to deploy 41 payloads at a later time.

Later update from TakeMe2Space. In a LinkedIn post that the page shows as published 4 days before 2026-10-19 (the post's URL identifier decodes to October 14, 2026), TakeMe2Space wrote: "MOI-1a is free-flying" and that it was "Deployed from OTV this morning after a Transporter-18 launch," having spent 14 days in orbit "in powered off state," with the "Next Step: working with our ground station partners to stabilise the satellite & make the first contact with MOI-1a." SatNews, in an article dated October 13, 2026, says Satlyt's newest software "launched" with the mission carrying MOI-1A; that article predates the deployment post. What no source opened says: that first contact with MOI-1a has been made, or that Satlyt's software has been powered on, run or produced results in orbit. satlyt.ai (home page and blog, newest item the September 25, 2026 note) showed no post-launch statement on 2026-10-19, and tm2.space's Missions page still listed MOI-1A as "October 2026" and "tentative." This page therefore reports the launch and the satellite's deployment as stated by its builder, but no onboard execution of Satlyt's software, and does not infer one.

Other recent items. Satlyt's site posts a September 25, 2026 note that xOrbita Inc, Satlyt and Symphony Space signed a memorandum of understanding "for the potential to explore" in-space infrastructure. The press release also mentions signed memoranda of understanding with the Kenya Space Agency and Angola's GGPEN. TechCrunch says Satlyt is among startups appearing at TechCrunch Disrupt as part of its Battlefield competition (October 13-15, San Francisco).

Same-name check. A USPTO wordmark search for "satlyt" returned one record, the registration above. A CourtListener search for "Satlyt" returned no results (see the record section below). The domain satlyt.com did not respond to requests from our network on 2026-10-01, so nothing is stated about it.

Complaint record: USAComplaints, BBB, Trustpilot, ComplaintsBoard and courts

This section reports what was searched on 2026-10-01 (BBB, Trustpilot, ComplaintsBoard and CourtListener were searched in a browser a second time that day) and what each search returned. Satlyt announced an $8 million seed round on October 1, 2026, the same day as these checks; the absence of records in a search is not a statement about its conduct either way.

• USAComplaints: no approved posts mentioning Satlyt were found in this site's database.
• BBB: searches for "Satlyt" across the USA, near Sunnyvale, CA and near San Francisco, CA returned result pages whose listings were similar-sounding names; none was named Satlyt.
• Trustpilot: the page trustpilot.com/review/satlyt.ai returned "The page you're looking for could not be found," and the first page of search results for "satlyt" (56 fuzzy matches) listed no company named Satlyt.
• ComplaintsBoard: its search returned "No reviews matching 'Satlyt'."
• Courts: CourtListener searches for "Satlyt" across federal dockets (RECAP), opinions and all-court results showed "0 Results" each.
• Not checked or not completed: a state business-registry search (blocked by a security check), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau database (Satlyt is not a financial company), and state attorney-general data-breach lists.

No regulator action, lawsuit, or consumer complaint about Satlyt was identified in the sources above. No ratings or review counts were found to report, so none are shown.

Is Satlyt Legitimate?

Federal records identify Satlyt as a corporation: the USPTO's TSDR record lists "Satlyt Inc," organized in Delaware, as owner of U.S. trademark Reg. No. 8341233 (registered July 14, 2026); USAspending.gov lists "SATLYT INC." as recipient of NASA contract 80NSSC25C0340; and SBIR.gov lists Satlyt as awardee of a NASA STTR Phase I award with the University of Houston. Its website, press release, TechCrunch and TechCabal describe the same business.

What those records do not establish: the funding amount, investor list, customer and pilot claims, "demonstration missions" and the Gemma results come from the company's statements and press coverage or a Google case study, not from a regulator or court. No state registry entry was reviewed. Space.com, NASASpaceflight and Via Satellite report that the Transporter-18 mission launched on October 1, 2026, and TakeMe2Space posted that its MOI-1a satellite was later deployed from an orbital transfer vehicle (see Company background), but no source opened states whether Satlyt's software has run onboard. No regulator action, lawsuit, or BBB, Trustpilot or ComplaintsBoard record under the name was found in the sources checked on 2026-10-01. This page assigns Satlyt no rating or label of its own.

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