Wyler’s E-Space craft launched
November 19, 2024
By Chris Forrester

A RocketLab ‘Electron’ rocket has launched Protosat-1, now confirmed by the US Space Force to be the first satellite from Greg Wyler’s new E-Space so-called ‘sustainable satellite system’ of a promised 300,000-fleet mega-constellation.
The constellation is licensed by Rwanda and the small demonstration satellite is catalogued under the Rwandan flag.
Launch took place on November 5th from RocketLab’s New Zealand launch site (at a reported cost of $6 million).
Wyler, who is behind the scheme, is a serial satellite entrepreneur and was the founder of both OneWeb (now owned by Eutelsat) and O3b Networks (now owned by SES).
He founded E-Space in 2022, and is now described as ‘Founder, CEO and Chief Architect of E-Space;. His mission is to “overcome the limitations of legacy LEO systems and re-imagining the design, manufacturing, economics and ways to deliver services. We are making a seismic shift in LEO space system design to fundamentally change the coverage, performance, throughput and total system cost of LEO satellite systems.”