Ibadan, 20 October 2025. – Leaf Space has been awarded ‘Scale-Up of the Year’ at the first Astrospace Awards, announced during the SPLORAZIONI 2025 event in Torino on 11 October 2025.
The jury cited Leaf Space for scaling one of the sector’s least visible yet most essential domains: ground communications for satellites.
Leaf Space is currently working on scaling network expansion and operational resilience while maintaining the commercial momentum across its goals and objectives. For example:
- Product evolution: The company is continuously enhancing its existing product lines to deliver higher performance, reliability and automation, while at the same time heavily investing in the design and production of its next-generation product;
- Commercial acceleration: 2025 is a record year for the company with new customers and missions onboarded;
- Network build-out: Leaf Space’s new sites progressing in Canada, Spain (Ka-band) and UAE with 4 antennas activated recently in August 2025.
- Operations and tooling: Leaf Space is also instituting company-wide initiatives on observability and predictive operations, with standardized SLAs, maintenance and test processes across the network.
Commenting on the ‘Scale-up pf the year award’, Cristina Zanchi, CEO of Leaf Space. remarked, “We’re proud to receive this recognition, it proves that innovation in space doesn’t always need the spotlight. Sometimes it’s about building the invisible infrastructure that makes everything else possible”.
Leaf Space’s Leaf Line service provides access to an owned network of ground stations via a unified interface, near real time mission data delivery, TT&C and payload support. The service also includes transparent per-minute pricing with dedicated mission management and 24×7 support.
The Ground Segment-as-a-Service (GSAAS) provider operates a fully owned, globally distributed network of ground stations, offering satellite operators flexible and reliable spacecraft communication.
