Northwood is building a data highway between earth and space. To meet the needs of today’s space industry, the one-lane rickety road for space data needs to adapt to a ten-lane highway routing continuous traffic across the globe.

Increasingly data-intensive space applications are now constrained by a bottleneck in throughput capacity on the ground.

Many key aspects of ground architecture haven’t changed much since the 1960’s. The industry standard is bespoke manufacturing processes, lengthy construction and fine-tuning, only to deliver a system with limited capacity and frequent failures.

Shared infrastructure has time and again played a significant role in scaling communications technologies to mass adoption whether it be shared towers for cellular technology or shared points of presence for the internet

And as previous generations of communications technologies reached the masses, they led to step changes in human progress. Telegraph networks led to the centralization of stock prices and real-time journalism. Cell phones freed communication from the constraints of space. The internet democratized access to information. The way that our generation can contribute to this story is by truly blanketing the earth in connectivity through space and expanding our connection out into a new frontier.