El Segundo, California
Operator-Built. No Compromise.
Orbitvein was founded in 2023 by an engineer who had spent years on the operator side of the ground segment problem. We are not a satellite manufacturer. We are not a hyperscaler adding GSaaS as a feature. We connect your spacecraft to ground — that is the entire business.
Why Orbitvein Exists
Vladimir Petrenko spent years in commercial space operations and satellite communications engineering — long enough to watch the same negotiation play out dozens of times. A new LEO operator needs ground station access. The legacy providers quote enterprise contracts with multi-year commitments and opaque pricing. The hyperscalers offer managed GSaaS but at rates and SLA structures built for AWS customers, not for a 3-person spacecraft team working off a constrained mission budget. And building your own antenna means 12–18 months of procurement, permitting, and commissioning before your first pass.
Orbitvein was founded in El Segundo in 2023 to occupy the slot none of those options filled: a commercial GSaaS provider run by operators, for operators, with published G/T and EIRP specs, per-pass pricing, and a scheduling API that doesn't require a procurement officer to use. The El Segundo location is deliberate — the LA aerospace corridor puts us adjacent to the commercial satellite operators, integrators, and avionics suppliers whose ground segment problems we exist to solve.
We launched operations in October 2023 with two stations. The network has since grown to four operational sites spanning the Pacific Rim, North Atlantic, Mid-continent, and Southern hemisphere access zones. We are bootstrapped by design. No venture capital, no growth-at-all-costs mandate, no pressure to up-tier operators who don't need it. The roadmap is driven by what missions actually require — not by what a board deck needs to look like.
Three People. One Focus.
Vladimir Petrenko
Founder & CEO
Background in commercial space operations and satellite communications engineering. Founded Orbitvein in 2023 after spending years watching small LEO operators get priced out of ground station access by legacy and enterprise providers. Runs day-to-day operations and customer onboarding.
Arjun Mehta
RF Systems Engineer
RF and microwave systems engineer. Responsible for antenna calibration, LNA chain performance, polarization switching, and maintaining autotrack accuracy across the station network. Handles station commissioning for new aperture deployments.
Sofia Navarro
Software & Scheduling Engineer
Builds and maintains the contact scheduling engine, REST API, and TLE propagation pipeline. Background in orbital mechanics software and distributed backend systems. Joined Orbitvein in early 2024 as the first technical hire outside RF.
El Segundo, California
El Segundo sits at the center of the Los Angeles aerospace corridor — a dense cluster of commercial satellite operators, launch vehicle integrators, propulsion suppliers, and avionics firms concentrated in the South Bay. This address is not incidental: it is where the operators we serve are building their spacecraft.
Being embedded in this ecosystem means customer conversations happen in person when they need to, not over a 3-hour time-zone gap. It also means we are recruiting from the same talent pool as the companies whose ground segment challenges we understand firsthand.
200 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 800
El Segundo, CA 90245
+1 (310) 226-0563
[email protected]
What We Stand For
Operator-First Design
Every product decision starts with what a satellite operator actually needs — not what is easiest to build, not what looks good in a pitch. Operators deal in NORAD IDs, TLE sets, AOS/LOS windows, and CCSDS frame delivery. We speak that language because we came from that world. Features we have not built represent genuine prioritization, not neglect.
Technical Transparency
We publish G/T and EIRP specifications, autotrack accuracy in millidegrees, per-tier uptime SLA numbers, and per-contact pricing — because operators should be able to close their own link budget before committing to a single contact. No black-box pricing. No "contact sales for specs." If the data you need to make a technical decision is not on this website, email us and we will put it there.
No Lock-In
Being independently funded means we have no revenue target that requires trapping operators in multi-year contracts. You can use Orbitvein for a single contact to validate a new spacecraft bus. You can use it for your entire ground segment. The pricing is the same, the SLA is the same, and our terms do not include renegotiation clauses triggered by volume thresholds. We are not building toward an exit event that requires extracting margin from existing customers.
One email. One business day. First contact in under 48 hours.
Send your NORAD ID and frequency band to [email protected]. We'll return pass predictions and a scheduling proposal by the next business day.