Telecom satellites in geostationary orbit usually weigh thousands of kilograms. Companies like Astranis are designing geostationary communications satellites weighing hundreds of kilograms.

When Swedish broadband service provider Ovzon began shopping around for a small communications satellite that would work in geostationary orbit, the designs that satellite manufacturers trotted out weren’t exactly “small.”

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Caleb Henry is a former SpaceNews staff writer.