mu Space
In-space communication
mu Space operates in the communications & connectivity sector of the space industry, is headquartered in Thailand, was founded in 2017, is at Series B stage, employs 11-50 people.
mu Space at a glance
| Status | Activechecked August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Sector | Communications & Connectivity |
| Headquarters | Thailand |
| Founded | 2017 |
| Stage | Series B |
| Team size | 11-50 |
| Website | muspacecorp.com |
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Timeline & funding
- July 2021Company
- December 2020Company
- 2020FundingSeries B: targeting up to $25M at a valuation above $100M; final closed amount not publicly confirmed↗TOT, B.Grimm Group, Majuven Fund, Nice Apparel Group and executives from Dow, SCG and the UCLA Foundation
- December 2017Regulatory
- September 2017Contract
Mission
Satellite communications supporting IoT and smart cities, plus ambitions in Asian commercial space travel.
mu Space is Thailand's best-known space company, and what it has built to date is on the ground. Factory 0 and Factory 1, opened in Bangkok in 2020 and 2021, make satellite components and aim to make whole satellites, and the company holds a fifteen-year national licence for satellite services. The stated ambition runs from Southeast Asian connectivity to orbital data centres.
Founded in 2017, the company moved early and visibly: a launch agreement with Blue Origin for a future geostationary satellite came within months, and the national telecom regulator's licence followed. As the first private company of its kind in Thailand, it carries the weight of being the local proof that a Thai space industry can exist.
Nine years in, no mu Space satellite has flown. The Blue Origin agreement never produced a launch, a later booking on a rocket that was retired went the same way, and the pattern in the record is consistent: the milestones with independent coverage are from 2017 to 2021, and everything since, partnerships, programmes, an NVIDIA membership, appears only in the company's own newsroom. The factories are real, the licence is real, and the space part of the story remains, for now, entirely prospective.
Team
- James Yenbamroong · Founder & CEO
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