2025: The Year of Inflection in Scale, Space, Defence and New Products!

Here’s a look back at the milestones, partnerships, and breakthroughs that defined Transcelestial in a year of relentless execution.

Transcelestial has officially gone vertical. We aren’t just looking at the stars; we are talking to them.

• Orbit Achieved: We are now a space-faring company. The launch of our 6G Starlab mission aboard SpaceX Transporter-15 in November marked a historic milestone. We are actively demonstrating high-speed laser downlinks from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to our proprietary Optical Ground Stations. Read More here.  
• Inter-Satellite Mesh: We deepened our collaboration with ST Engineering, advancing the development of laser terminals capable of connecting satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), effectively creating a fiber-optic network in the sky. This will be testing concepts of Space Data Centers, Routing Data using high speed lasers and other key goals. The launch is aimed for H2 2026. Read More here.
• Global Ground Station Network: In record time of less than 2 months, we commissioned proprietary Optical Ground Stations (TMOGS) in Singapore and Spain (both on schedule to be operational in Q1 26). These stations utilize advanced closed-loop tracking algorithms to lock onto LEO satellites moving at 7km/s, solving the “last mile problem” for space-to-ground data downlink. This is made possible through Transcelestial’s extensive operational and engineering expertise.
• GPS-Denied Navigation: In the defense sector, we successfully tested a new unique capability for Non-Jammable GPS service – laser-based navigation. This technology uses our laser terminals not just for communication, but for precise optical positioning, allowing Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) to navigate in GPS-jammed environments with higher resolution and accuracy than traditional precision GPS. Read More Here .

2025 was the year our technology became the choice for telecommunications giants across the globe, expanding into new verticals and geographies. Today we are the default choice of Wireless Fiber Optics for 10+ Telcos globally across Asia and USA.

• North American Expansion: We signed a landmark multi-year Master Agreement (MA) with one of the largest Telcos in the USA, validating lasers as a choice of technology to bring reliability to 5G networks nationwide. Supporting this is our strong partnership with Wesco, now expanded with a multi-million dollar commitment to supply the Americas with industry-leading CENTAURI laser communications terminals. While focus in on the US, we have seen tremendous client interest in 5G backhaul and Mining connectivity in CALA (Central America, South America and Carribean) with initial pilots underway.  
• Connecting Asia: Our partnership with Globe Telecom (Philippines) continued to grow and led to a massive commitment for multi-year supply for CENTAURI laser comms. Read More Here on Philippines. Supporting this is our strong Philippines partner Asticom who signed a large milti-million dollar commitment to ensure timely production flow. Across the seas in India, we finished early production tests with BSNL and another one of the largest telcos in the world.  They both aim to rapidly upgrade their national 5G & Wireless Broadband network, providing flawless performance in dense urban radio environments. Read More here on India
• Campus & Enterprise Growth Globally: Our demand in the Campus and Enterprise connectivity sector exploded beyond Telcos into education, ports, biomedical, and disaster recovery. E.g. In 2025, Guardant Health deployed Transcelestial links to solve campus connectivity challenges where fiber trenching was cost-prohibitive or environmentally disruptive. Read More Here

The physics of shooting laser beams through turbulent air and changing weather, across kilometers, while maintaining multi-gigabit speeds and low bit error rate aren’t easy. In 2025, we saw some of the largest enhancements so far to CENTAURIm the CENTAURI+ which includes major upgrades including fully programmable layer 2 & 3 capabilities, upgrades in internal AI algos, optomechanics, and component selection that helped improve the level of capability and quality of this technology to new levels that the industry has never seen.

• Introducing Centauri+: Our latest yet-to-be-publicly launched terminal features a new powerful FPGA-driven platform that opens up features such as Layer 2/3 SDN, Advanced Custom Forward Error Correction, low-latency VPN baked in, Quantum-Safe Encryption, and 10Gbps+ full-duplex capacity, delivering fiber-like speeds wirelessly. More details will be announced soon as we gradually open up from Beta with select customers to a Public Launch in Q1 2026. 
• AI-Driven Safety: We deployed a world-first AI Vision Laser Safety System. This AI monitors the laser beam path near the deployed terminals in real-time, withsub-100ms response), ensuring absolute safety for the public in dense urban areas and rooftops. This is the industry’s first application of AI to make hyper eye-safe class 1m laser terminals, gaining approvals of this approach from major international government health and safety bodies.
• Proven Resiliency: Our networks maintained 99.89% availability through monsoon seasons and diverse weather conditions, validated by over 5,000 operational hours in critical carrier networks. This gives the Transcelestial team the largest ongoing experience of running wireless lasercomms or FSO networks in PRODUCTION globally, today!
• The “Doublet” Optical Breakthrough: We engineered and mass-produced a proprietary single-block receiver lens system. This “Doublet” design drastically reduces reflective signal loss and increases the tolerance for transmit/receive alignment shifts, significantly extending the operational lifespan and reliability of every unit in the field. This adds years to the lifetime of the terminals in the field going ahead increasing ROI for our customers. 
• Software-Defined Atmospheric Correction: We released Centauri OS v5.28 as our biggest release of the year, featuring many upgrades to our groundbreaking advanced AI tracking algorithms that utilizes dynamic, adaptive response tuning of tracking parameters based on scintillation and visibility in real time across rain, haze, fog and snow. This version of the CENTAURI OS also allows the terminals to distinguish between physical vibrations (e.g., wind on a tower) and atmospheric scintillation (heat shimmer), adjusting the laser aim in microseconds to maintain lock during heavy rain or fog.
• AI-Human Hybrid Software team: Our incredible engineering team has been heavily driving the AI-assisted software engineering wave with Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Pro as our key models driving code writing. In certain weeks, Norbot (Wallace and Gromit fans?), has written up to 50% of all code at record pace with picking up, branching, fixing, committing and then post a check from a senior developer, merged into master. This is clearly a new paradigm in shipping features at the rate of inference.

We secured our future with strong backing from strategic global investment partners.

• Series A3 Success: We successfully closed a $9.7M Series A3 funding round, validating our vision and execution. This capital injection fuels our market growth in Japan, USA & Australia. It also brings significant power towards ramp-up of our “Terabit Factory” manufacturing capabilities (as much as 5-10x increase in production volumes seeing market demand).We welcomed NTT Finance, Paspalis and MPower Partners as key investors and a host of our existing investors (Seeds Capital, Kickstart Ventures). Read More Here
• Expanded Commercial Partnerships: Across telecom, defence and space, Transcelestial has focused quite heavily on partnerships. Today we have 50+ sales and product partners with whom we sell-through or sell-with to the top telcos, governments and enterprises worldwide. Directly and indirectly, we have 100+ trained sales and support people as a result in all major Asian and American countries, who have a single focus – how can we educate more people about this technology and how can we put these terminals and services in the hands of as many as possible, and quickly.

• SF Tech Week hosted by us with Breakneck’s Dan Wang discussed, US-China tech dynamics (here)
• Vishal Harnan from 500 Global shared how we delivered one of the “weirdest pitches” he’d ever invested in (here)
• EDB OSTIn talked about Transcelestial’s space lasers and orbital ambitions on CNBC (here)
• Nikkei Asia highlighted our expansion across Japan (here)
• We showcased how to navigate in RF- and GNSS-denied environments at sea at the Hatch Programme. (here)
• Rohit’s (Our CEO)’s journey from banking to deep space tech was featured on CNBC (here)

Read more here with our central collection of all things Transcelestial.

Transcelestial is one of the few companies in this space that publicly checks all three boxes: commercial terrestrial links, announced/early space LCTs, and a branded OGS product line (TMOGS – Transcelestial Mother of all Optical Ground Stations).

As demand continues to rise, the future of connectivity will not be solved by staying grounded. It will be shaped by networks that operate across land, sea, and space, working together as one system. 2025 marked the year that lift-off became operational reality. From here, the focus is on building upward, outward, and at scale! 

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