Space Compass Corporation
Skyloom Global Corporation

Space Compass and Skyloom Finalize Partnership
to Bring Optical Data Relay Services to the Earth Observation Market
Tokyo, Japan, and Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., January 31, 2023
Skyloom and Space Compass (a joint venture between NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT) today
announced that the companies finalized their partnership, including the launch ofSkyCompass-1, their first geostationary-based (GEO) optical data relay node over Asia-Pacificby Q4 2024. The team’s cutting-edge communication and networking systems will serve therapidly growing Earth-Observation (EO) market for real-time, high-capacity, direct-to-clouddata transfer. SkyCompass-1 represents the first step in their partnership and the companies
look forward to expanding their GEO constellation to provide additional capacity and global
coverage over the next few years. The companies’ teams have already been engaged bypotential customers and expect to begin selling capacity in the first half of 2023.

Currently, EO operators are managing increasing demands for more remote sensing data on
orbit and facing large bottlenecks in transporting this data in a timely fashion, limiting thevalue and impact of the products they are creating. The existing approaches to on-orbit remotesensing data transportation rely on radio frequency (RF) technology, which limits data transfer
throughput and information assurance. The Skyloom-Space Compass partnership enables costeffective data transportation for an ever-growing constellation of EO satellites in low-earth-orbit (LEO). Their end-to-end optical relay service allows EO operators to focus on their core
missions while deploying optical communications to get their data back to the cloud within
seconds versus minutes or hours.
“This SkyCompass-1 project is a first step for Space Compass to create the Space Integrated
Computing Network, and one of the biggest milestones to date. Thanks to Skyloom’s state-ofthe-art technologies and our shareholders’, NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT, extensive support, weare confident our team will be a market leader in the space-based optical network age,” said
Koichiro Matsufuji, Co-CEO, Space Compass.
“The Skyloom team is dedicated to our mission of building the orbital infrastructure forwireless internet, and through our partnership with the Space Compass team, we’re gettingcloser to making that vision a reality,” said Marcos Franceschini, Co-founder & CEO, Skyloom
Global. “Our customers understand the tremendous value in optical communications and thecompetitive advantages it provides for the EO market. They’re ready to take advantage of highperformance data transport and will harness Skyloom’s innovation and Space Compass’sexperience to further their missions.”“With this partnership between Space Compass and Skyloom, we have no doubt that our highquality and cost-effective services are attracting EO operators worldwide,” said Shigehiro Hori,Co-CEO, Space Compass. “We are excited to expand our optical network in space throughcollaboration between the US and Japanese companies.”
Skyloom’s Optical Communication Terminals (OCTs) —a fundamental component in theSkyCompass telecommunications infrastructure — will begin rolling off Skyloom’s new
production line in Broomfield, CO in Q2 2023. By outfitting customer satellites in LEO withthese OCTs, the partners enable high throughput, low latency, more secure data transport fromspace back down to Earth. The Space Compass - Skyloom team are finalizing the details of
their commercial offerings based on initial customer feedback and anticipate the full capacityof SkyCompass-1 to be reserved prior to launch.
■ About Space Compass Corporation
Space Compass is a joint venture company between NTT, Japanese Information andCommunications Technology (ICT) giant, and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Asia’s largest
satellite operator. We will launch a Space Integrated Computing Network to aid therealization of a sustainable society.
For more information, visit our corporate website, space-compass.com.
■ About Skyloom Global Corporation
Skyloom is a Broomfield, CO-based telecommunications innovator founded with themission to develop, deploy, and operate one of the fundamental pieces of tomorrow's spacecommunication infrastructure for the provision of data transport services on a global andplanetary scale. They leverage deep heritage in space optical communications to enable
real time data transfer so that customers and decision makers can leverage perishable
information. www.skyloom.co