Vulcan Wireless

Vulcan Wireless designs and builds digital communication solutions for terrestrial and space applications, with core expertise in embedded software, digital signal processing, and radio (RF) design. The company's flagship line of NSR-SDR software-defined radio transponders spans S-band, X-band, X/S-band, and K/Ka-band, along with MUOS/UHF SATCOM terminals and NSA-certified ethernet encryptors, serving CubeSat, smallsat, LEO, GTO, and cislunar/lunar missions.

The company's CubeSat-heritage CSR-SDR software-defined radio flew to orbit in 2010, establishing an early flight-proven track record in the small satellite communications market. Since then Vulcan Wireless has grown into a supplier for U.S. government and commercial space programs, delivering turnkey, high-reliability, high-assurance communication systems that move efficiently from concept to production.

Vulcan Wireless serves defense and civil customers including the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines, and NASA (including NASA JPL), and has partnered with companies such as Firefly Aerospace and Omnispace. In 2025 its radios played a key communications role aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which achieved a successful robotic Moon landing in March 2025.

The company's focus areas include on-orbit reprogrammable SDR transponders, NSA Type-1 and software-based encryption, MUOS/legacy UHF SATCOM waveforms, coherent turnaround/ranging, DVB-S2 high-rate downlink/uplink, and compatibility with major ground segment providers including AWS Ground Station, SSC, KSAT, Atlas Space, MC3, NASA NEN/DSN, and TDRS-MA.