About us – Paradigm - the world leader in secure satellite communications

Paradigm is the world’s leading commercial provider of military-grade satellite communications.

Paradigm is the prime contractor for the Skynet 5 contract with the UK Ministry of Defence, signed in October 2003, valued at £3.6bn. The programme provides mobile voice, video, internet and broadcast communications for the UK armed forces, as well as a range of other Government departments and agencies.

We own, manage and operate the Skynet 5 satellite system, and we are responsible for delivering the service, controlling the satellite, managing the network and implementing all upgrades throughout its life.

From the outset we designed Skynet 5 to be large enough and capable enough that we could provide military satellite services to a range of other countries and organisations. These include NATO, the US DoD and the Armed Forces of the Netherlands, Portugal, Canada, France and Germany.