Satellite Industry Association Announces Xairos as its Newest Member

Washington, D.C., December, 10, 2024 – The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) today announced that space-based quantum technology company, Xairos Systems Inc, (Xairos) is its newest affiliate member. Xairos utilizes quantum time transfer technology to provide a resilient and accurate global timing service and alternative position, navigation and timing (AltPNT) system compared with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) such as GPS.

Earlier this year, the United States Space Force’s SpaceWERX and Space Systems Command selected Xairos as one of the companies participating in the AltPNT challenge. The goal of the challenge is to enhance the resilience and accuracy of satellite-based navigation systems beyond traditional GNSS.

“SIA is pleased to announce Xairos as the Association’s newest member company,” said Tom Stroup, president of the Satellite Industry Association. “Technological innovation is fueling the current unprecedented growth of the commercial satellite industry and helping ensure America’s technological space leadership. SIA welcomes Xairos and its expertise in the field of innovative quantum synchronization for satellite-based navigation.”

“Xairos is honored and proud to join the SIA community,” said David Mitlyng, CEO of Xairos. “SIA has been a powerful advocate for the new space revolution, which is enabling disruptive new technologies, such as our quantum time transfer, to provide new services and capabilities from orbit.”

Affiliate membership in SIA is open to satellite companies as well as supporting entities that advocate and promote the domestic commercial satellite industry. SIA Affiliate Members receive a number of benefits including attendance at SIA’s Annual Association Meeting, participation in all open SIA meetings and most events (excluding the SIA Leadership Dinner) and SIA Member discounts to industry events. For further details regarding membership in SIA, please see the following link: https://sia.org/membership/membership-applications/.

About The Satellite Industry Association
SIA is a U.S.-based trade association providing representation of the leading satellite operators, service providers, manufacturers, launch services providers, and ground equipment suppliers. For more than two decades, SIA has advocated on behalf of the U.S. satellite industry on policy, regulatory, and legislative issues affecting the satellite business. For more information, visit www.sia.org.

SIA Executive Members include: Amazon; Comtech; DIRECTV; EchoStar Corporation; Eutelsat Group; HawkEye 360; Intelsat S.A.; Iridium Communications Inc.; Kratos Defense & Security Solutions; Ligado Networks; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Northrop Grumman; Planet Labs PBC; SES Americom, Inc.; Spire Global Inc.; and Viasat Inc. SIA Associate Members include: ABS US Corp.; The Aerospace Corporation; Artel, LLC; AST Space Mobile; Astranis Space Technologies Corp.; The Boeing Company; Eutelsat America Corp + OneWeb Technologies; ExoAnalytic Solutions; Inmarsat, Inc.; Kinematics; Kymeta Corporation; Lynk; Omnispace; Ovzon; Panasonic Avionics Corporation; Skyloom; Telesat and ULA. SIA Affiliate Members include: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP; AvL Technologies; COMSAT; Digital Locations, Inc.; DLA Piper; Globalstar; Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn); Hogan Lovells; Integrasys LLC; Keysight Technologies, Inc.; Media Broadcast Satellite; Orbital Research; Peraton; Plexus Corp; Sheppard Mullin; Wiley; Xairos Systems Inc and XTAR, LLC.