Space Inventor

Space Inventor designs and manufactures complete satellites and subsystems from its headquarters in Aalborg, Denmark, serving government agencies, defense organizations, and commercial operators. Founded in 2015 by Karl Kaas, the company builds roughly 95% of its satellite subsystems in-house using equipment including 5-axis CNC machines and pick-and-place lines. Its approach, called flexible modularity, uses flight-proven units to assemble satellite platforms whose structure adapts to each mission rather than fitting payloads into a fixed bus. Customers include NASA, ESA, and the Danish Defense. Notable programs include BIFROST, Denmark's first satellite for monitoring Greenland and the Arctic; the DISCO-2 climate satellite; the core platform for BEACONSAT, Europe's first Austrian military satellite; and a contract to build the satellite for Denmark's first lunar mission. In 2023 the company delivered what it describes as the world's smallest geostationary satellite.