Perkins Coie’s NewSpace Team Represents Skyloom in Partnership with Space Compass

WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 15, 2023)—Perkins Coie's NewSpace team is pleased to have represented Skyloom, a leader in optical communication infrastructure for space, in its partnership with Space Compass (a joint venture between NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT), which includes the planned launch of SkyCompass-1, a geostationary-based optical data relay node, over the Asia-Pacific. For more information, please see the partnership's press release here.

Skyloom and Space Compass's cutting-edge communication and networking systems are designed for real-time, high-capacity, direct-to-cloud data transfer for the earth-observation market. Skyloom is a telecommunications innovator based in Broomfield, Colorado, founded with the mission to develop, deploy, and operate one of the fundamental pieces of tomorrow's space communication infrastructure for the provision of data transport services on a global, planetary scale.

The Perkins Coie NewSpace team was led by mergers and acquisitions counsel David Martinez, and technology transactions associate Akua Asare-Konadu.