Our Mission · Space for Every Nation

The Revenue Side of the Space Industry in Asia.

Most of the world has no space programme — and the capability they need is being built on both sides of the Pacific. Our mission: open space to the nations still outside it. Rheality gets space-data companies their first APAC revenue, and helps emerging space nations tap the best of both worlds — from Hong Kong, the harbour built to face East and West at once.

Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, at purple dusk

What We Do

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Market Entry

Your first signed deal in Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, or the wider region — buyer identification, first meetings, negotiation, and close. Retainer plus success fee: we only win if you do.

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Local Navigation & Deal Support

Every market is a maze of procurement culture, paperwork, and gatekeepers. We find the buyers, open the doors, run the meetings in the right language — and bring in the right local counsel for the regulatory pieces — so your team never flies blind.

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Distribution That Compounds

One market becomes a playbook; the playbook becomes a channel. We're building the distribution and licensing layer between space-data suppliers and Asia-Pacific buyers — so selling into the region stops being a bespoke project.

Who We Serve

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Sell Side — Space-Data Companies

You have the satellites and no Asia-Pacific revenue. We find your buyers, open the doors, run the meetings, and close your first deals in the region — retainer plus success fee, so we only win when you do.

How it works for sellers →

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Buy Side — Nations & Enterprises

Floods, sinking ground, failing crops, assets too remote to watch — most organisations never imagine a satellite is the answer. We show you what space can already do for your problem, translate it into the right sensors and suppliers from both of the world's ecosystems, and stay accountable from first question to working data.

How it works for buyers →

Why now

The Buyer Side of Asia Is Opening — Fast.

Hong Kong has mandated its sovereign investment corporation to invest in the commercial space economy and is reforming LEO satellite licensing. Regional infrastructure, resources, and insurance buyers already spend on geospatial data — they just can't reach Western suppliers. The supply side is commoditizing exactly as the demand side switches on.

The companies that win Asia-Pacific won't be the ones with the best satellite. They'll be the ones in the room. And the nations building space capability from zero shouldn't have to pick a side to get started — that's the gap Hong Kong was made to fill.

Selling into Asia-Pacific?

Your First APAC Deal Is One Conversation Away.

Tell us what you sell and where you've tried. We'll tell you — honestly — whether we can get you revenue, and how fast.

For Sellers · Space-Data Companies

Your First Paying Customer in Asia-Pacific.

You built the satellites. The revenue is twelve time zones away, behind languages, procurement cultures, and gatekeepers your sales team has never met. We get you to signed deals — and we only win when you do.

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Fit & Targets

Two weeks: we map your product to APAC verticals with real budgets, pick two or three beachhead markets, and agree the target list — grounded in market research we've done inside this industry, not guessed from afar.

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Doors & Meetings

We find the buyers, open the doors, and run the meetings — in Cantonese, Mandarin, or English. You join the calls that matter, with briefing notes on who's in the room and what they actually need.

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Close & Grow

Negotiation support through to signature, then account follow-through so deal one becomes deal two. Reporting you can put in front of your board.

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How We Charge

Monthly retainer plus a success fee on closed first-year revenue, on three-to-six-month engagements. One seller per data category — we don't run competing mandates.

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What You Learn Even If Nothing Closes

Ground truth on APAC pricing, procurement, and competitors — the market research a strategy firm would charge six figures for, generated as a side effect of selling.

Selling into Asia-Pacific?

Tell Us What You Sell.

We'll tell you — honestly — whether we can get you revenue, in which market, and how fast.

For Buyers · Nations & Enterprises

Answers From Space — Without a Space Programme.

Most organisations never imagine a satellite is the answer to their problem. It usually is. Satellites already watch ground movement in millimetres, floods in near-real-time, fires within minutes, crops field by field — you just have to know what to ask for. That's our job.

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Ground & Slopes

Millimetre-scale movement of slopes, reclamations, dams, and tunnels — monitored from orbit, no sensors installed.

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Floods & Typhoons

Near-real-time flood extent through cloud and darkness; the evidence base for response and parametric insurance.

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Fires & Haze

Plantation and peatland fire detection in minutes, not news cycles.

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Crops & Plantations

Health, stress, and compliance across every field you manage — including the ones a truck can't reach.

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Maritime & Ports

Vessels, congestion, and coastal change across the region's busiest waters.

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Assets Too Remote to Watch

Mines, pipelines, borders, islands — if it's on Earth, something overhead can see it.

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Problem First

You tell us the operational problem. No space knowledge needed — that's the point.

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Translate & Source

We turn it into the right sensors and suppliers from both of the world's space ecosystems, compared openly — we're vendor-neutral and our fees are disclosed.

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Working Data

Pilot first, subscription when proven. We stay accountable from first question to answers on your desk.

Have a problem worth watching from orbit?

Describe It. We'll Do the Translating.

Twenty minutes, no jargon, and an honest answer on whether space can help.

Founder

Rhea Lau, founder of Rheality

Rhea Lau

Founder · Hong Kong & UK

Geophysicist gone commercial — from FEM landslide models and patented seismic AI to scouting APAC markets for a €2B geo-data company.

Marsquake ResearchNASA InSight seismology with ETH's Marsquake Service — Dr. Simon Stähler
2 Deep-Learning PatentsFiled at SLB — seismic image translation with ViT, GAN & CNN
Leadership TrackFugro (€2B geo-data company) — first from its APAC region selected for the programme; market research & partner scouting in Taiwan · Philippines · Indonesia
BSc GeophysicsImperial College London — Rio Tinto Scholar
MSc Applied GeophysicsJoint degree — ETH Zürich · TU Delft · RWTH Aachen
US$250M+First-year trading volume via the Binance partnership she negotiated

A Decade in the Making

Space isn't a pivot — it's a throughline. Ten years of milestones, newest first.

2026
Rhea Lau speaking on stage at Cyberport, Hong Kong

Rheality Limited

Founded in Hong Kong — the revenue side of the space industry in Asia.

2025–26
Rhea at Fugro, pointing at the company motto wall

Fugro — Solution Manager, GroundIQ

First graduate from Fugro's APAC region selected for the International Leadership Track. Built a deep-learning landslide-detection model shared with GIS teams worldwide, and ran market research and partner scouting for ground-risk tools across Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

2025
Rhea at the Arup Hong Kong office

Arup Hong Kong

Graduate geotechnical engineer — FEM landslide simulation, Python automation, wind-farm bid support.

2022–24
Rhea Lau at TU Delft graduation holding the diploma

Joint MSc Applied Geophysics

ETH Zürich · TU Delft · RWTH Aachen — one degree across three of Europe's top engineering schools.

2024
Rhea holding her SLB x ETH master thesis at focusTerra, ETH Zurich

SLB × ETH Master Thesis

Seismic image translation with ViT, GAN and CNN architectures — the research behind two SLB patent filings. Supervised by Dr. Rajiv Kumar and Dr. Massimiliano Vassallo (SLB UK) and Dr. Dirk-Jan van Manen (ETH Zürich).

2023
Rhea embracing a giant Mars installation

Marsquake Research at ETH Zürich

Seismology, off-world — working with Dr. Simon Stähler of ETH's InSight Marsquake Service, the team that used marsquakes to measure the Martian core.

2018–22
Rhea Lau graduating from Imperial College London

Imperial College London

BSc Geophysics on a full Rio Tinto Scholarship.

2021
Rhea at a YouTube Studio recording space

YouTube — Web3 Education Channel

0 → 6,000 subscribers in six months; negotiated a Binance affiliate partnership that drove 1,900+ sign-ups and US$250M+ in first-year trading volume.

2020
Imperial College Astronomical Society events poster and telescope eyepieces

Imperial College Astronomical Society — President

Led a 10-person committee and the society's events for 100+ members — guest lectures on space weather and galactic archaeology, deep-sky observation nights, Greenwich Observatory trips.

2017
Student delegation in front of Long March launch vehicles, China Aerospace exploration trip 2017

Launch-Vehicle Facilities

Student aerospace exploration delegation to China's space programme sites.

2017
Rhea receiving a medal from astronaut Jing Haipeng at the China Aerospace youth programme, 2017

Medal from Jing Haipeng (景海鵬)

Presented by the veteran Shenzhou mission commander at the China Aerospace youth programme (Shine Tak Foundation, Hong Kong).

2016
Hong Kong Astronomical Society camp, 2016

Hong Kong Astronomical Society

Astronomy camp — where the habit started.