SATELLITE 2017 Startup Space. Photo: Space Frontier

Astrapi Corporation won the grand prize of the Startup Space pitch competition at the SATELLITE 2017 Conference & Exhibition, in recognition of its innovative technology and business strategy. Astrapi was one of approximately 100 firms entering the competition, and one of only 20 global companies accepted to pitch after a jury review by domain experts.

The Startup Space competition was produced in partnership with the Space Frontier Foundation and Access Intelligence. Astrapi presented spiral modulation, an innovative approach providing satellite communications service providers with spectral efficiency gains, new coherent interference mitigation techniques, and power optimization flexibility in order to meet their customers’ increasing demand for more data throughput and other communication benefits.

Astrapi has more than 40 patents, issued, pending, filed provisionally, and covered internationally under Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) provisions defining and controlling spiral modulation. Spiral modulation opens the door to much higher spectral efficiencies than were previously thought possible and may be applied to increasing the spectral efficiency of traditional signal modulation techniques with minimal re-design to existing radio architecture design.