Small Aperture
Reflectors

Agility in Orbit


Our compact reflector platforms are built for performance in a small package. From tactical comms to data relay and LEO constellations, these apertures deliver the RF performance required by modern missions with form factors that flex to match different spacecraft configurations.

Flight Programs

More than 10 successful deployments on orbit .

Undisclosed U.S. Government Programs

Undisclosed

Lunar Communications

Tendeg is supplying high gain, 0.7m X and Ka-band KaPDA products for vehicles in lunar orbit and on the lunar surface, providing a critical link for high-speed communications in this unforgiving environment.

Undisclosed

LEO Q/V Backhaul

Tendeg has deployed 10+ high gain, 0.7m Q/V KaPDA products supporting backhaul communications in LEO. This includes a two-axis gimbal providing hemispherical coverage from LEO to ground.

Manufactured at
the Speed of Need

We’ve engineered our compact reflectors for manufacturability and mission fit. Every configuration is grounded in the same core architecture designed to support repeat builds, fast delivery, and simple spacecraft integration.

Build Qualities

Tendeg manages the full lifecycle of deployable systems from design, prototyping, and testing, to integration, and delivery – all under one roof. Our process is technically rigorous, data-driven, and built to meet flight requirements without compromise.

Compact
Stowage Options

Flat-packed Flip-Out platforms and gimbaled 2-axis versions allow us to meet the unique mechanical constraints of each mission.

Configurable Feed &
Electronics Integration

Feeds, diplexers, front end electronics, and harnessing are modular and can be delivered integrated or customer supplied.

Designed for
Constellation Scale

Our approach prioritizes production tempo, cost control, and thermal/electrical simplicity that is vital for proliferated missions.

Technical Specifications

Aperture: 0.5-1.5m
Configuration: 2-Axis Gimbal

Mass: 12kg* 

*.7m model

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Aperture: .35 – 1m
Configuration: 2-Axis Gimbal
Mass: 13kg*

*35 cm model

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Stacy Narine

Human Resources Manager

Stacy Narine is Tendeg’s Human Resources Manager, bringing experience across aerospace, technology, and higher education with a focus on aligning people strategy with business objectives. Her background includes talent strategy, employee relations, organizational development, compliance, and the development of scalable people processes within complex, highly regulated environments. At Tendeg, Stacy supports a growing technical workforce by strengthening HR operations, advising leadership, and helping build a culture rooted in communication, accountability, and shared purpose.

Scott Slack

Director of Marketing & Communications

Scott Slack is Tendeg’s Director of Marketing & Communications, leading brand strategy, external communications, product marketing, and strategic storytelling across the company’s deployable space systems portfolio. He brings more than 20 years of experience spanning aerospace, defense, satellite communications, documentary media, and mission-driven technology organizations. At Tendeg, Scott works across business development, engineering, programs, and executive leadership to translate complex technical capabilities into clear market positioning, customer-facing narratives, and communications that support growth across national security, commercial, and civil space markets.

Scott Liddle

Chief Engineer

Scott Liddle is a Chief Engineer at Tendeg and a lead structural analyst with more than 15 years of experience in the development, test, production, and mission verification of launch vehicle and spacecraft hardware. He brings deep expertise in structural analysis and complex flight-hardware development, with a reputation for finding multidisciplinary solutions to challenging system-level problems. At Tendeg, Scott provides technical leadership across advanced deployable space structures, helping ensure designs are analytically grounded, test-informed, and ready for mission execution.

Bruce Davis

Director of Advanced Products

Dr. Bruce Davis is Tendeg’s Director of Advanced Products, where he leads growth initiatives across business capture, product strategy, and new technology development. His background includes senior leadership in deployable space systems and advanced antenna products, including prior leadership of Redwire Space’s Longmont site and the development of Redwire’s antenna product portfolio group. At Tendeg, Bruce focuses on aligning emerging mission needs with scalable deployable solutions for national security, commercial, and civil space applications.

Eric Kelso

Director of Gimbaled Antennas

Eric Kelso is Tendeg’s Director of Gimbaled Antennas, leading work across precision pointing systems, antenna mechanisms, and deployable space hardware. He brings deep hands-on experience in the design, development, fabrication, and test of complex aerospace structures and mechanisms, with a focus on translating demanding mission requirements into reliable flight-ready systems. At Tendeg, Eric supports the development of integrated antenna solutions that combine mechanical precision, deployment reliability, and mission-driven performance for commercial, civil, and national security space applications.

Rory Barret

Director of Programs

Rory Barrett is Tendeg’s Director of Programs, bringing more than 32 years of aerospace experience, including 26 years supporting space flight hardware. He leads program execution across requirements management, resource planning, budget, schedule, and customer delivery. Rory’s background includes leading high-tempo spacecraft production efforts, including the delivery of 11 satellites in 3.5 years at Blue Canyon Technologies. At Tendeg, he helps translate technical complexity into disciplined program execution.

Mark Thompson

Chief Technology Officer

Mark Thomson serves as Tendeg’s Chief Technology Officer, bringing more than 40 years of aerospace experience to the company’s technical leadership team. His expertise spans deployable spacecraft structures and mechanisms, with a particular focus on large deployable optical, planar, and parabolic antenna systems. Mark helps guide Tendeg’s technology strategy and ensures the company’s solutions are grounded in proven engineering, flight heritage, and mission-driven innovation.

Neal Beidleman

Chief Engineer

Neal Beidleman is Tendeg’s Chief Engineer, with more than 30 years of experience in spacecraft mechanisms, satellite solar arrays, satellite vehicle design, and test. He has supported a wide range of complex flight-hardware programs, including spacecraft power systems, launch vehicle avionics, deployable boom solar arrays, ROSA, Mega-ROSA, and other advanced mechanism developments. At Tendeg, Neal provides senior engineering leadership across the design, development, and execution of deployable space systems.

Gregg Freebury

Founder and CEO

Gregg Freebury is Tendeg’s Founder, CEO, and Principal Engineer. With more than 30 years of experience in aerospace and aircraft vehicle design, analysis, hardware development, and test, Gregg brings deep technical expertise to Tendeg’s work in deployable space structures and flight hardware. His background spans advanced finite element analysis, vibration, shock, nonlinear analysis, and the development of complex aerospace systems from concept through test and delivery.