Barcelona, Spain – December 1, 2025 – Sateliot, Europe’s first 5G-native satellite operator, today announced it has commissioned Spanish manufacturer Alén Space to build five additional Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) spacecraft, bringing its planned constellation to more than 100 satellites by 2027. The expansion doubles on-orbit capacity and positions the company to serve over eight million contracted IoT devices across 50 countries—an order book already valued at €270 million.
The new spacecraft, slated for launch in 2026, incorporate an upgraded payload that increases throughput per satellite by 35 % while cutting power draw 18 %, enabling smaller, battery-efficient terminals for logistics, agriculture, utilities and maritime markets. Each satellite complies with 3GPP Release 17, allowing standard NB-IoT devices to roam seamlessly between terrestrial towers and Sateliot’s LEO network without hardware or firmware changes. Recent demonstrations achieved a 99.15 % message-success rate and 99.97 % network availability, performance levels that rival fiber-backhauled terrestrial cells.
“Extending 5G from cities to oceans and farmland is no longer aspirational,” said Jaume Sanpera, CEO and co-founder of Sateliot. “With these five additional satellites we close mid-latitude coverage gaps and cut latency to sub-100 milliseconds, giving enterprises the same plug-and-play experience they expect on land—only now it works everywhere on Earth.”
Market demand is accelerating. According to Euroconsult, the satellite IoT segment will grow from US 1.4 billion in 2024 to US 5.4 billion by 2030, a 25 % compound annual growth rate, driven by 25 billion connected devices expected online by the end of the decade. Roughly 85 % of the planet’s surface still lacks reliable cellular service, creating a US 2.3 billion annual revenue pool for LEO-based NB-IoT connectivity.
Sateliot’s wholesale model—selling megabytes rather than hardware—has lowered entry costs 80 % versus legacy sat-IoT, unlocking use cases such as soil-moisture probes in Australia, fishing-boat trackers in Senegal and smart-meter rollouts in Brazil.
The company’s scaling roadmap is backed by a €30 million European Investment Bank loan approved earlier this year and recurring service contracts with more than 400 mobile operators, systems integrators and device manufacturers. Manufacturing of the new batch has begun at Alén Space’s facility in Nigrán, Spain, leveraging domestic supply chains to meet EU space-sovereignty guidelines. All spacecraft will ride-share on SpaceX Falcon 9 missions in late 2026, after which Sateliot forecasts daily global revisits and a four-hour maximum data-age guarantee for latency-sensitive applications such as leak detection and cold-chain monitoring.
About Sateliot
Sateliot operates the world’s first 5G-standard LEO constellation purpose-built for massive IoT. By extending terrestrial NB-IoT coverage into space, the Barcelona-based company enables mobile operators to offer seamless, low-power connectivity anywhere on Earth. Founded in 2018, Sateliot has raised over €240 million in equity and debt and plans to deploy 100+ satellites by 2027.
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