ABOUT US

Northwood is designing ground infrastructure from first principles to accelerate mass adoption of satellite technology.

Building with a world-class team and partners

Where it all began

Northwood began with a question: what would the future of satellite backhaul look like if we built it from the ground up?

While on vacation at Northwood Lake, we applied our experience in SATCOM to build antennas from scratch and communicate with NOAA satellites. This laid the foundation that we’ve built upon ever since.

Our Mission

Northwood's mission is to serve Earth by industrializing space.

Space companies rely upon connectivity to run their business but ground infrastructure is stuck in the past. Many key aspects of ground architecture haven’t changed much since the 1960’s. The industry standard is bespoke manufacturing processes, lengthy construction and fine-tuning, only to deliver a system with limited capacity and frequent failures. The industry is ready to advance this key pillar of infrastructure.

Northwood is building an efficient ground network based on phased array technology to rapidly scale connectivity and resilience for space.

The future is shared

Shared infrastructure has time and again played a significant role in scaling communications technologies to mass adoption whether it be shared towers for cellular technology or shared points of presence for the internet

And as previous generations of communications technologies reached the masses, they led to step changes in human progress. Telegraph networks led to the centralization of stock prices and real-time journalism. Cell phones freed communication from the constraints of space. The internet democratized access to information. The way that our generation can contribute to this story is by truly blanketing the earth in connectivity through space and expanding our connection out into a new frontier.

The right team for the job

Northwood was formed in 2023 by Bridgit Mendler, Griffin Cleverly, and Shaurya Luthra. The company operates out of El Segundo, CA.

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