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CesiumAstro develops active phased array communication systems used across satellites, launch vehicles, and unmanned aerial systems.
ACTIVECesiumAstro builds software-defined communications systems, including active phased array payloads, across space, air and ground domains, and has expanded into full satellite missions for ISR and telecommunications.
CesiumAstro builds software-defined communications systems, including active phased array payloads, across space, air and ground domains, and has expanded into full satellite missions for ISR and telecommunications.
Provisional: the latest data refresh looked incomplete and was held, so these scores use inputs measured 2026-10-10.
Rank 18 of 156 ranked companies. With the pillars we have not measured for this company filled at the 10th and 90th percentiles of the companies we did measure, and every other company held at its published total, the rank is likely between 12 and 35.
4 of 7 inputs measured · Medium confidence · 81% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Market value, Reported revenue
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-10 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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5 private rounds on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Software-defined multi-beam active phased array communication system for space and airborne platforms.
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Compiled Oct 12, 2026 from 11 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
4 awards, $5.0M obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 16, 2026. Awarded Sep 27, 2018 to Sep 16, 2024; most from NASA (3 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 16, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Sep 16, 2024
Latest space award
$2.6M from DoD
PROVIDE THE AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AFRL) WITH THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A MEDIUM SIZED KA-BAND ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY (APA) SATCO...
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Sep 16, 2024
Form D notices
7 offerings reported on Form D
Latest filed Jun 9, 2026; first sale Feb 2, 2026; 2 of them last updated by an amendment (D/A)
Each offering counts once: a later amendment (Form D/A) replaces its original. Form D names no round label and no investors. Filings for a merger or SPAC deal are left out.
Latest sourced round
Series C: $270.0M
Reported on Form D filed Jun 9, 2026; the date shown is the first sale
Source: SpaceNews
First sale Feb 2, 2026
Sourced rounds on record
7 rounds, $426.8M disclosed
Every round has a disclosed amount
Published rounds with a source link only, on the same rules as the funding tracker. Each round links the source that states its figure; amounts in other currencies are converted to dollars at the rate shown on the funding tracker.
Department of Defense
1 space award, $2.6M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Sep 16, 2024
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
3 space awards, $2.4M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Sep 11, 2023
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 12). CesiumAstro: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/cesiumastro
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "CesiumAstro: Company dossier." Data as of October 12, 2026. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/cesiumastro.
BibTeX
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author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{CesiumAstro}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/cesiumastro}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/cesiumastro},
urldate = {2026-10-12},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-12; each fact links its primary source}
}