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Space Commerce
Help global space companies evaluate Sri Lanka for market entry, local partnerships, services, suppliers, and regional commercial opportunities.
MARKET ACCESS
PRIVATE BRIDGE TO THE GLOBAL SPACE ECONOMY
BUILD THE BRIDGE
FROM SRI LANKA
TO ORBIT.
Lanka Space Group is a private holding and partnership platform for one job: connect Sri Lankan capability with U.S. and global space companies, capital, research, infrastructure, and market access — without pretending to be a government agency.
Privatecommercial platform
4 lanescommerce · research · capital · infrastructure
2019 · 2022 · 2025three nanosatellite milestones
1 bridgeSri Lanka ↔ U.S. ↔ global
BILATERAL OPPORTUNITY MAP
proposed · OFFICIAL NETWORK
UNITED STATESCAPITAL · COMPANIES · RESEARCH
SRI LANKATALENT · LOCATION · CAPACITY
COMMERCE · TECHNOLOGY · RESEARCH · INVESTMENT
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SOUTHERN CROSS · CRUX
SPACE COMMERCEMARKET ENTRY
TECHNOLOGYCO-DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCHLABS + TALENT
CAPITALINVESTMENT
Brand posture: the lion-and-sword is an original Lanka Space Group emblem, not Sri Lanka’s national emblem. This site avoids seals, titles, or claims that imply government authority.
The platform thesis
SRI LANKA DOES NOT NEED
TO START FROM ZERO.
The opportunity is to connect existing engineering capacity and a real space-technology track record with global demand, capital, research networks, and commercial execution.
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Technology + Infrastructure
Build pathways around ground systems, communications, electronics, software, testing, data infrastructure, and small-satellite capability.
BUILD CAPACITY
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Research + Talent
Connect Sri Lankan engineers, students and institutions with companies, universities, mentors, technical programs, and mission work.
HUMAN CAPITAL
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Capital + Partnerships
Create diligence-ready opportunities for investors and strategic partners instead of treating “space in Sri Lanka” as a vague theme.
INVESTMENT
Sri Lanka’s public space-technology record
THE CAPABILITY STORY ALREADY HAS MILESTONES.
Context from ACCIMT and international space-law sources. Lanka Space Group does not claim these public-sector and academic achievements as its own.
National capacity program conceptualized
ACCIMT says the structured national-capacity effort began with a program paper submitted to government in mid-2014.
ACCIMT CONTEXT
Admission to UNCOPUOS
ACCIMT’s program history places Sri Lanka’s admission to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in 2015.
ACCIMT / UNOOSA CONTEXT
RAAVANA-1
Sri Lanka’s first nanosatellite and the first satellite built by Sri Lankan engineers, through the ACCIMT–Kyutech BIRDS-3 collaboration.
ACCIMT CONTEXT
KITSUNE
ACCIMT participated in the five-party KITSUNE 6U nanosatellite project, deployed from the ISS in March 2022.
ACCIMT CONTEXT
BIRDS-X Dragonfly
ACCIMT describes Dragonfly as Sri Lanka’s third nanosatellite, carried to the ISS aboard SpaceX SPX-33 in August 2025.
ACCIMT CONTEXT
Space-law context: Sri Lanka ratified the Outer Space Treaty in 1986. The private platform proposed here is framed around peaceful commercial, scientific, educational, and infrastructure activity.
Why build from Sri Lanka?
LOCATION IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
A serious platform should not reduce Sri Lanka to “near the equator.” Geography matters, but the stronger case mixes talent, collaboration history, technical capacity, and access to the Indian Ocean region.
✓Near-equatorial island geography relevant to communications, tracking, data, and future infrastructure studies
✓Nanosatellite collaboration experience through ACCIMT and international partners
✓Engineering, electronics, software, communications, and technical talent that can connect to the space supply chain
✓Indian Ocean position linking South Asia, Southeast Asia, and major maritime routes
✓Room for private capital and commercial execution to complement public research capacity
OPPORTUNITY LAYERSSCREEN BEFORE CLAIMING
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Ground + communicationsStudy tracking, telemetry, antenna, data relay, network and ground-segment opportunities against real mission requirements.
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Electronics + manufacturingMap local suppliers to aerospace quality requirements instead of labeling ordinary manufacturing “space-ready.”
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Earth observation + dataBuild applications around agriculture, climate, coast, infrastructure, logistics and disaster response.
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Talent + educationUse real mission projects, labs, CubeSats, software and ground systems to accelerate capability.
Interactive partnership builder
START WITH THE ACTUAL OBJECTIVE.
“We want to do something in Sri Lankan space” is not a strategy. Pick who you are and what you want to accomplish; the system turns it into a first-pass pathway.
Recommended first-pass pathway
Ecosystem, not implied endorsements
KNOW WHO EXISTS
BEFORE CLAIMING WHO IS A PARTNER.
These are relevant stakeholder categories and institutions. Their presence here does not imply partnership, endorsement, or agreement with Lanka Space Group.
SRI LANKA-SIDE ECOSYSTEMCONTEXT · NOT CLAIMED PARTNERS
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Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern TechnologiesPrimary public institution advancing national space-technology capacity.
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Universities + engineering programsResearch, electronics, software, communications and talent.
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Private technology + industrial basePotential suppliers to qualify against real mission standards.
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Private capital + diasporaPotential patient capital, market access and global relationships.
U.S.-SIDE ECOSYSTEMCONTEXT · NOT CLAIMED PARTNERS
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Commercial space companiesSatellite, ground, software, data, communications and infrastructure.
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Universities + research labsTechnical collaboration, student programs and mission research.
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Space investors + strategic capitalCommercial diligence, venture building and growth capital.
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Space-diplomacy ecosystemRelevant when a project legitimately requires government-to-government engagement.
Holding-platform architecture
ONE GROUP.
FOUR INVESTMENT LENSES.
Broad enough to hold future ventures without pretending every opportunity is one business.
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Commercial Ventures
Market-entry vehicles, services, data products, ground-segment businesses, software and infrastructure joint ventures.
VENTURE LAYER
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Research + Programs
University collaborations, engineering programs, mission projects, fellowships, CubeSat and ground-station initiatives.
CAPACITY LAYER
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Capital + Advisory
Project diligence, local-partner screening, investment structuring, market intelligence and introductions.
CAPITAL LAYER
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Infrastructure Studies
Ground, communications, data, facilities and location studies separating technical feasibility from promotional claims.
INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER
Operating principles
BUILD CREDIBILITY
BEFORE BUILDING HYPE.
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Private means private
Never imply government authority, agency status, diplomatic mandate, or endorsement that does not exist.
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Partner means signed
Institutions stay ecosystem or target counterpart until a real agreement exists.
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Space-ready means qualified
Suppliers are mapped to actual standards before being marketed as mission-ready.
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Peaceful + transparent
Commercial and scientific work should align with international space-law obligations and responsible cooperation.
Sri Lanka ↔ United States ↔ Orbit
TURN “SPACE POTENTIAL”
INTO A SPECIFIC PARTNERSHIP.
Define the company, capital, research, or infrastructure objective first. Then build the bridge around something measurable.