Company profile
Cascade Space
Cascade Space builds a commercial alternative to the Deep Space Network. The San Francisco company is a Y Combinator startup focused on aerospace and space...
Facts
- Segment
- COMMUNICATIONS
- Country
- US
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Founded
- 2025
- Website
- https://cascade.space/
About Cascade Space
Cascade Space is developing a distributed ground communications network for lunar and deep-space missions. Its architecture uses arrays of smaller commercial antennas that operate together as a larger receiving aperture, creating capacity that can be deployed and expanded in increments. The network is intended to provide telemetry, tracking and command links for spacecraft operating beyond low Earth orbit.
The company’s software coordinates antenna scheduling, signal processing and customer access across the distributed infrastructure. Cascade also offers design tools for evaluating mission link budgets and ground-network requirements before launch. Initial network capacity is planned for 2027, with services aimed at commercial lunar spacecraft, scientific missions and government programmes requiring alternatives to existing public ground networks.
Market context
ENABLEMENT
Summary
Type: Space communications layer
Core: Optical relay network
Function: Off-world connectivity
Audience: Satellite operators