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Your satellite
deserves to fly.

Space Logistics · University CubeSat Programs · Founding Client Outreach 2026

The science is ready. The hardware is ready. The compliance, coordination, and launch logistics are where university programs get stuck. Sidereal Logistics manages that entire layer — so your team stays focused on the mission.

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✦ The Problem

Where University CubeSat
Programs Get Stuck

The launch problem is mostly solved. The logistics problem is not. Most university programs hit the same three walls — and none of them are technical.

Regulatory Complexity

FCC Part 25 licensing alone takes 6–12 months. Most teams don't start it until it's already a problem. NOAA permits, FAA payload docs, and export control run in parallel — and none of them wait for each other.

Manifest Close Pressure

Missing a manifest close deadline means forfeiting your deposit and waiting for the next available window — often 6–12 months. The aggregator doesn't extend deadlines for documentation that isn't ready.

No Single Coordinator

Getting a satellite to orbit requires coordinating with a launch provider, an aggregator, an insurance broker, export counsel, FCC/NOAA regulators, a freight carrier, and a ground station — simultaneously. Nobody else is managing that for you.

✦ What We Do

Full-Stack Mission
Logistics

One coordinator. Every dependency. From intake through orbit.

Service 01

Regulatory Navigation

FCC Part 25 licensing, NOAA remote sensing permits, FAA payload documentation, and ITAR/EAR export control — managed in parallel against your launch timeline.

Service 02

Launch Coordination

Rideshare manifest management, aggregator liaison, and manifest close oversight. We identify the right window for your orbit, timeline, and budget — then manage the relationship end-to-end.

Service 03

Payload Integration

ICD preparation, test requirements review, physical payload handling, and chain-of-custody documentation. Your hardware arrives at the integration facility ready to manifest.

Service 04

Post-Launch Support

72-hour early orbit monitoring, TLE acquisition, ground station coordination, and anomaly triage. FCC reporting and conjunction monitoring on monthly retainer.

Client Mission Portal

Every Sidereal engagement includes access to a real-time mission dashboard — phase and milestone tracking, regulatory status by agency, document management, and billing. You see your mission, not just an email update. This is what working with Sidereal looks like from day one.

✦ How It Works

From Discovery
Through Orbit

Discovery Call

Scope & risk assessment

Mission Planning

Provider match & regulatory roadmap

Compliance

FCC · NOAA · ITAR in parallel

Integration

Payload prep & manifest close

Launch & Orbit

Launch day through early orbit

Founding Client Program — 2026

The Right Time
to Have This Conversation

Sidereal is selectively onboarding its first university partners. Founding clients receive direct founder access, preferred engagement rates, and dedicated mission support from intake through launch — and their candid feedback shapes how the service is built for university research programs specifically.

Direct founder involvement — not an account manager. Every gate, every decision.

Preferred engagement rates — founding partner pricing that reflects the relationship, not the market.

Grant-timeline alignment — milestone billing structured around your funding cycles, not ours.

Feedback that matters — what you tell us about the process shapes the product for every university program that follows.

If your next mission is 12–24 months out, this is the right conversation to have now — before the regulatory clock starts running against you.

✦ Get in Touch

Start the Conversation

A 20-minute discovery call is enough to understand your mission scope, identify the key dependencies, and tell you honestly whether Sidereal is the right fit.

Your satellitedeserves to fly.

Where University CubeSatPrograms Get Stuck

Full-Stack MissionLogistics