San Diego, 5 August 2025 – Kratos Defence & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) and hiSky have announced a strategic partnership to integrate their respective technologies—Kratos’ OpenSpace® software-defined ground system and hiSky’s Smartellite™ satellite terminals. This collaboration will enable satellite network services, including Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications, to operate entirely in virtual and cloud environments, eliminating the need for traditional on-site hub infrastructure.
The software-driven solution allows commercial and government satellite operators to offer highly flexible, cost-effective IoT connectivity across a broad range of environments, including remote, mobile, and disaster-affected regions. By shifting hiSky’s network hub from physical hardware to a fully virtualised environment within the Kratos OpenSpace platform, the two companies are unlocking scalable, cloud-native capabilities for satellite communications.
Driving Growth in the Global IoT Market
The global IoT market is on a steep growth trajectory, with ABI Research projecting supply-side software and service revenues to rise from USD 277 billion in 2024 to USD 606 billion by 2030. Satellite communications are expected to play a critical role in supporting this expansion by connecting areas not served by terrestrial infrastructure.
Greg Quiggle, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Kratos, highlighted the transformative nature of the partnership:
“Kratos is working closely with hiSky to fully virtualise the hiSky hub within the OpenSpace platform, enabling it to run in the mainstream public cloud. This will allow hiSky and Kratos customers to offer on-demand, dynamically scalable IoT services at significantly lower cost than hardware-based systems.”
On-Demand Network Enablement
hiSky’s Smartellite™ terminals already provide an agile solution for satellite IoT deployment, currently relying on conventional hub hardware. The partnership with Kratos takes this further, enabling fully orchestrated, cloud-based services that can be initiated or scaled up with minimal latency.
“With the results of this partnership, satellite operators will be able to spin-up new carriers upon demand at any enabled teleport with a touch of a button, without the need for new hardware at the teleport and the associated plumbing,” said Shahar Kravitz, co-founder and CEO of hiSky. “It’s a new era of flexibility, scalability, speed of service enablement and redundancy.”
The Kratos-hiSky partnership positions both companies at the forefront of the move toward virtualised satellite network infrastructure, with wide-reaching implications for defence, security, industrial operations, and remote communications worldwide.
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