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Charles Miller is a serial space entrepreneur with decades of experience in the industry. He previously co-founded NanoRacks, which became a world leader in commercial nanosatellite deployment and has delivered hundreds of payloads to space, and he served as NASA's Senior Advisor for Commercial Space from 2009 to 2012, advising agency leadership on commercial public-private partnerships. After a multi-year effort to find a 'killer app' for nanosatellites, Miller co-founded Lynk Global (originally UbiquitiLink) in 2017 with Margo Deckard and Tyghe Speidel to connect satellites directly to standard mobile phones, and serves as CEO and chairman.
Margo Deckard co-founded Lynk Global (originally UbiquitiLink) in 2017 and serves as the company's chief operating officer. The concept behind Lynk traces in part to her observation, during the Ebola crisis in Africa, that aid workers were using donated satellite terminals primarily for text messaging — pointing to satellite-to-phone messaging as a high-value application for small satellites. She helped build Lynk into the first company to secure a commercial FCC license for satellite direct-to-device service.
Tyghe Speidel is a spacecraft systems engineer who gained experience in orbital mechanics, satellite navigation and control, and spacecraft systems design as a mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked on satellites and a Mars rover. Before co-founding Lynk he was Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer at NexGen Space, responsible for system design and technology application. He co-founded Lynk Global (originally UbiquitiLink) in 2017 and serves as chief technology officer, leading the engineering of its satellite-to-standard-phone constellation.
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Lynk's constellation of small low-Earth-orbit satellites function as cell towers in space, connecting to standard unmodified phones over existing cellular bands. The service initially supports two-way SMS text messaging and emergency alerting in areas without terrestrial coverage, with mobile network operators reselling it to their subscribers. Built on an FCC commercial direct-to-device license, the system has been demonstrated in more than 25 countries and is contracted with carriers such as DOCOMO Pacific to extend coverage to remote and underserved regions.
12 patents on file, but none with both an extractable figure and an abstract on Google Patents yet.
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