aid: xenesis
name: Xenesis
description: 'Xenesis, Inc. is an optical satellite communications company founded
  in 2017 by Mark LaPenna and headquartered in Lisle, Illinois. It builds the Xen-Hub,
  a free-space optical (laser) communications terminal enabled by a technology transfer
  from NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and rated at greater than 10 Gbps, and plans
  Intercessor, a space-to-ground optical mesh network intended to backhaul high-bandwidth
  data with lower latency and higher capacity than radio-frequency or terrestrial
  fiber links. The company has taken Space Development Agency optical-terminal awards
  (Phase 1 in August 2022, a Phase 2 follow-on in December 2023) built to the SDA
  OCT v3.1 and v4.0 standards, signed a payload agreement with Airbus for a Bartolomeo
  demonstration slot on the International Space Station, and holds a $1.2M agreement
  with Georgia Tech for satellite optical communications work. Xenesis is a space
  hardware and telecommunications-infrastructure company, not a software vendor: as
  of this profiling pass it publishes no public API, developer portal, SDK, or
  machine-readable contract of any kind, and its own website is currently returning
  an HTTP 401 site-wide password lock.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/xenesis/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pass
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-04'
modified: '2026-09-04'
tags:
- Company
- Space
- Satellite
- Optical Communications
- Free Space Optics
- Laser Communications
- Telecommunications
- Aerospace
- Defense
- Connectivity
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://xenesis.io/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xenesis-io/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/xenesisio
- type: Contact
  url: mailto:info@xenesis.io
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/xenesis_stock/
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com/company/xenesis/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/xenesis-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/xenesis-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-04'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: >-
    Xenesis sells free-space optical terminals (the Xen-Hub) and planned satellite
    network capacity to government and commercial satellite operators — software is
    not the product — and its entire xenesis.io origin now answers HTTP 401 behind a
    Flywheel managed-WordPress site-wide password lock, so even the marketing site is
    unreadable; the last complete archived version of the site carried only Home, News
    and About Us in its navigation, with no developer portal, API, docs or SDK section.
  evidence:
  - url: https://xenesis.io/
    status: 401
  - url: https://xenesis.io/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 401
  - url: https://xenesis.io/openapi.json
    status: 401
  - url: https://xenesis.io/llms.txt
    status: 401
  - url: https://web.archive.org/web/20240910001501/https://xenesis.io/
    status: 200
  - url: https://registry.npmjs.org/xenesis
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-04'