# Turtle Island Space
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Dutch space-education company providing online STEM courses and remote access to ground-station exercises using real satellite signals and weather-satellite/Earth-observation data; EO-adjacent rather than a core EO data provider.

## Specifications
- **country**: Netherlands
- **website**: https://turtleislandspace.com/
- **operator domains**: ["turtleislandspace.com"]
- **entity type**: company
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-08
- **verified by**: operator
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **attributes**: {"kind":"commercial","country":"Netherlands","website":"https://turtleislandspace.com/","operator_domains":"[\"turtleislandspace.com\"]","description":"Dutch space-education company providing online STEM courses and remote access to ground-station exercises using real satellite signals and weather-satellite/Earth-observation data; EO-adjacent rather than a core EO data provider."}
- **relevance**: ancillary

## Editorial
Turtle Island Space is a Dutch space-education company headquartered at SBIC Building, Kapteynstraat 1, Noordwijk, Netherlands, and founded by Brian Treacy.[^operator-about] The company provides online STEM courses and remote access to ground-station exercises using real satellite signals and weather-satellite data, targeting university students, schools and individual learners.

The Turtle Island Space online platform offers courses covering satellites, ground stations, space communications and Earth-observation concepts through practical exercises.[^operator-courses] The Command and Tracking Tool gives users access to the GS-SBIC-1M2 L-band ground station at SBIC Noordwijk, where they can select passes for NOAA, Metop, Meteosat and Elektro-L weather satellites and practice signal capture and data decoding.[^operator-command] Additional ground stations were listed as planned on the operator datasheet as of the 2026-06-08 access date.[^operator-datasheets] Service tiers include Outreach, Academic and Single-User packages.[^operator-home]

Turtle Island Space completed ESA BIC Noordwijk incubation from 2023 to 2025.[^sbic-graduates-2025][^esa-startup] Partners and supporters include ESA BIC Noordwijk, with educational users from Inholland Delft, Nanosatellite Missions Design LTD and the University of Birmingham cited on the operator homepage.[^operator-home]

The company's relevance to Earth observation is ancillary: Turtle Island Space enables students to interact with weather-satellite and EO data through its ground-station access tools but does not operate satellites or supply commercial EO data products.

## Sources
- [esa-startup] | Turtle Island Space - ESA Commercialisation Gateway | https://commercialisation.esa.int/startups/turtle-island-space/ | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-08
- [sbic-profile] | ESA BIC startup Turtle Island Space offers students ground station operation and satellite data decoding opportunities | https://www.sbicnoordwijk.nl/turtle-island-space-offering-educational-services-esabic/ | tier=third-party | accessed=2026-06-08 | author=Carmel McNamara | published=2024-02-26
- [sbic-graduates-2025] | Meet the 2025 graduates of the ESA BIC incubation programme | https://www.sbicnoordwijk.nl/graduates-of-esa-bic-incubation-programme-dec-2025/ | tier=third-party | accessed=2026-06-08 | author=Carmel McNamara | published=2025-12-19
- [operator-home] | Space Education - Turtle Island Space | https://turtleislandspace.com/ | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-06-08
- [operator-courses] | Courses - Turtle Island Space | https://turtleislandspace.com/courses/ | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-06-08
- [operator-command] | Command and tracking tool - Turtle Island Space | https://turtleislandspace.com/test/ | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-06-08
- [operator-datasheets] | Turtle Island Space datasheets | https://turtleislandspace.com/datasheets/ | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-06-08
- [operator-about] | About us - Turtle Island Space | https://turtleislandspace.com/about-us/ | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-06-08

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