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Meet PermaSat: featured by ESA BIC Denmark

We’re proud to share that PermaSat has officially been accepted into ESA BIC Denmark. Thank you to the ESA BIC Denmark team for the feature and for the continued support!

Read the full article: Bringing 5G thinking to low-Earth orbit.

ESA BIC Denmark · 30 December 2025

Welcome to another edition of “Meet the ESA BIC Denmark Startups”, where we highlight the startups currently incubated in the ESA BIC Denmark programme.

Meet PermaSat, the team bringing “5G for satellites” to life. Imagine your phone only having Wi‑Fi and staying offline whenever you left home. That is how most satellites work today: they collect data in orbit and then have to “come home” over a ground station before they can deliver it. PermaSat instead wants satellites to connect directly into existing 5G non‑terrestrial networks, so they can stay online and send back valuable data continuously, not just in short contact windows.

One of the clearest impact cases is Earth‑observation missions for disaster monitoring. When a wildfire or flood hits, getting imagery and data instantly instead of hours can change how responders act on the ground. In PermaSat’s vision, satellites no longer have to wait for the next pass over a ground station before sharing what they see, they transmit as soon as the data is generated.

As part of the ESA BIC Denmark programme, PermaSat is now turning this “5G for space” concept into a robust, scalable connectivity layer that can support the next generation of European space missions; starting from a master‑thesis prototype and growing into a commercial platform built by a team of electrical engineers and space‑communications specialists.

Read more about them in the full article on our website: https://lnkd.in/eii9QGxR

#5G #SpaceConnectivity #LEO #Satellites #NewSpace #ESABICDenmark #SpaceForEarth #EarthObservation #DisasterResponse #Telecom

ESA BIC Denmark featured startup: “Bringing 5G for satellites to life”, with a photograph of the PermaSat co-founders.ESA BIC Denmark slide: satellites currently collect data in orbit and wait to pass a ground station to deliver it, like a phone with only home Wi-Fi. Earth photographed from orbit below.ESA BIC Denmark slide: PermaSat is developing a connectivity layer for small satellites to use broadband constellations via the emerging 5G-NTN standard. PermaSat logo below.ESA BIC Denmark: “Find your space connection. Could your startup create a strong business with space?” Visit https://www.spaceventures.dk/esabic. Managed by Space Ventures DK.

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