Gatehouse Satcom to acquire Satlab

Gatehouse Satcom to acquire Satlab, developer and manufacturer of radios for small satellites

The Danish developer of 5G NTN software adds flight-proven communication and payload radios for small satellites.

Nørresundby, Denmark, November 12, 2026. Gatehouse Satcom, a Danish developer of software for 5G non-terrestrial networks (5G NTN) and infrastructure for satellite networks, has agreed to acquire Satlab, an Aalborg-based company that designs and manufactures radios for small satellites. The deal puts satellite network technology and flight-proven satellite radios in one fast-growing company.

Founded in 2013 with roots in a satellite project at Aalborg University, Satlab develops software-defined radios for small satellites in low Earth orbit. The company hired its first employees in 2020, has since grown to 23 people, and has delivered radios to more than 100 customers.

Its S- and X-band radios carry commands up to satellites and bring telemetry and payload data, such as Earth observation data, back to the ground. Its payload radios pick up signals from ships, aircraft and IoT devices.

“Small-satellite missions depend on Satlab’s radios, and we are proud to welcome the team behind them,” says Kenney Schmidt Christiansen, CEO of Gatehouse Satcom. “We see a future where a device connects through a satellite as easily as through a cell tower, wherever it is. With Satlab, we take on a bigger responsibility for getting there, from the network to the radios on the satellite. We will keep building toward it, including through further acquisitions that strengthen what we can offer customers.”

The two teams will develop a new radio together: a Satlab radio that runs Gatehouse Satcom’s 5G NTN software, starting with NB-IoT. It will give customers 5G NTN software and the radio it runs on, designed to work together and available from one company.

The joint radio is an offer, not a requirement. Satlab’s customers can keep buying its radios with whatever software they run today, including their own. Gatehouse Satcom’s customers can keep buying its 5G NTN software and run it on the radios they choose.

“Our business now has the scale to keep growing within an organization that can bring our radios to far more customers than before. Just as important to me, our existing customers keep the radios, contacts and support they know, and can add Gatehouse Satcom’s 5G NTN software if they want it,” says Jesper A. Larsen, co-founder of Satlab. “We chose Gatehouse Satcom for its people and its engineering culture. They get things done the way we do, and we speak the same language about business.”

When the acquisition closes, Satlab’s team joins Gatehouse Satcom and continues to develop, manufacture and sell its radios from Aalborg. Ongoing projects and programs for customers of both companies are not affected. Over time, Satlab will take the Gatehouse Satcom name and brand, but its radios will keep the Satlab name as a product line.

With Cobham Satcom’s Networks division added in March and Satlab joining now, Gatehouse Satcom will have about 140 employees, more than twice as many as a year ago, at four sites in Denmark and Poland and with a commercial presence in France and the US.

The parties have agreed not to disclose the price. The acquisition is subject to customary approvals and is expected to close by the end of 2026.

Both teams will be at the Danish pavilion at Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen, Germany, November 17-19.

À propos de Gatehouse Satcom

Gatehouse Satcom develops software for 5G non-terrestrial networks based on 3GPP standards, as well as infrastructure for satellite networks. Its 5G NTN products include NB-IoT eNodeB software, a reference UE and validation platforms, and it carries out feasibility studies for satellite operators, device makers and integrators. The company is also developing NR gNodeB software. When the acquisition of Satlab closes, Gatehouse Satcom will also offer radios for small satellites and have about 140 employees at four sites, Nørresundby (headquarters), Aalborg, Kongens Lyngby and Krakow, with a commercial presence in France and the US.

About Satlab

Satlab A/S is a Danish developer of advanced radio systems for highly embedded applications, headquartered in Aalborg. The company specializes in customer-tailored, SDR-based payloads for nano- and microsatellites, as well as TT&C systems for S-band and beyond. Its portfolio includes S-band and X-band transceivers and transmitters, and AIS, ADS-B, LoRa and VDES receivers.