Autonomous system
AS39520 SD-TECHOPS-NL
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Satcom Direct International
satellite aviation connectivity business
SD-TECHOPS-NL is operated by Satcom Direct International Ltd.
What it's used for
- The space carries satellite connectivity infrastructure, evidenced by the netname
UK-SATCOM-20060918and registrantSatcom Direct International Ltd. - The AS announces a single IPv4 prefix,
89.255.208.0/22, comprising 1024 addresses, with 0 IPv6 prefixes and 1 observed neighbour. - Traffic from this AS consists of in-flight connectivity services for aviation, supporting passenger and crew internet access via satellite links.
Notable
- Registrants align with the announcer, listing
Satcom Direct International Ltd.,SD TechOps, andSD TechOps Abuse-C Rolefor the announced prefix. - Satcom Direct merged with Gogo, which is now the primary provider for multi-orbit in-flight connectivity.
- The address inventory is a single contiguous /22 block, indicating a focused, dedicated allocation for satellite operations.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS54238 | Satcom Direct Inc. | 58 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-22, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS39520- Registry name
- SD-TECHOPS-NL
- Registrant
- Satcom Direct International Ltd.
- Abuse contact
- techops@satcomdirect.com
- Registered
- 2017-11-30
- Last changed
- 2019-11-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS39520
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS39520
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-23. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere