Skynopy

2 months ago, I didn't know what a digitizer was. 🤷♀️ And today I am buying more digitizers than books... getting a sweet collection for Skynopy. 2 weeks ago, I had therefore the opportunity to explain the role of digitizers play in communicating with satellites during our company event. During the office tour, the whole team had the chance to showcase what Skynopy has been building for the last 2 and a half years. This evening in Bourse de Commerce was a great moment to meet the people and organizations that make up our ecosystem and help us grow at a crazy fast pace. Feel free to reach out to know more. ps: see a digitizer photo in comments. #Skynopy #GSaaS #Scaling #NetworkExpansion

📶 Acheminer rapidement les données des satellites vers la Terre reste un défi stratégique. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eEewm9fC Fondée en octobre 2023 par Antonin Hirsch et Pierre BERTRAND, Skynopy permet aux opérateurs de connecter leurs satellites en orbite basse à un réseau de stations sol existantes et sous-utilisées, évitant ainsi d’investir dans leurs propres infrastructures. 👉 Grâce à une interface et une API, les clients réservent automatiquement du temps d’antenne lorsque le satellite survole la zone souhaitée. Une sorte de Airbnb de l’antenne. La start-up fournit ses services à une dizaine d’opérateurs, dont Airbus Defence and Space. Skynopy possède ses propres antennes sol ou bien des partenaires comme AWS, Kinéis ou encore Eutelsat avec le projet AKAR. Cette start-up fait partie de la sélection « 100 start-up où investir en 2026 » de Challenges. 🏆 Capitaux recherchés ➡️ 40 millions d’euros

📡 Kangaroos were slowing us down but Skynopy still succeeded to integrate a new antenna in just a week ! Can you spot the baby kangaroo on the pictures 🦘🇦🇺 ? In March, I was in Australia to connect a new antenna to our network. What really stood out is how fast it went. From installing our hardware, to running tests, all the way to the first satellite contacts, it took us five days. ➡️ 1 week. 1 antenna. Fully operational. That’s the speed we are building to scale globally! Because network systems are all about convergence. The winner in satellite communication won’t be the one who owns the most infrastructure. It will be the one who can connect it all! Beyond the tech, this trip was also about people. I met the most innovative players from the Australian space ecosystem! They are passionate, pragmatic, and moving fast. Thanks to everyone I met along the way, especially Samuel Forbes for organizing the Fugro SpAARC visit, and Katherine Bennell-Pegg for connecting us with amazing people. If this is what a week looks like at Skynopy...imagine what our amazing team could bring in a year Victor Lebrun Paul Chapotet Dao Khanh Vu LE Stefano Ciccotosto Alexandre Michel Antonin Hirsch Let’s keep scaling. Let’s keep connecting. Let’s reshape satellite communications. #NewSpace #Skynopy #GSaaS #Scaling #NetworkExpansion #Australia

📞 "Hi Pierre, this is Netflix production. We would need your ground stations. Do you know the Three-Body Problem?". Wait, really? Well... 🎥 Apparently, "the antennas on screen weren't convincing enough." So they flew a production crew to our actual operational site. Here's what happened 👇 Our engineers ended up on camera. "Act natural, please," they told us Antonin Hirsch Audrey Bernier Lucie Liversain Our satellite dishes became part of the scenery. Our control room became a Netflix set. When the director asked, "Can you make the antenna actually send a message to the sun?" — our team instantly locked the antenna onto the Sun in 4 seconds flat. The film crew went silent. The director whispered: "...keep that in." 📡 📡 This was hands down the most surreal week in Skynopy's history. Building ground stations for satellite operators is our day job. Apparently, building them for sci-fi is our side hustle now. It was a real blast to meet the cast of the Three-Body Problem and many actors more: Ryan Reynolds Jessica Alba Priyanka Chopra ------- Wait, really ? Well... No, not really Happy April 1st everyone 🛰️🎬😏 If Netflix actually wants to call us, though... We are ready P.S. — The antennas are real. #ThreeBodyProblem #Netflix #Space #GroundStation #SatelliteOps #NewSpace #AprilFools

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗱. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝟯𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁. 🚀 Yesterday was one of those days that perfectly captures what makes LEOP so intense: 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲… 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵. We supported the LEOP of Space Locker’s satellite, launched aboard SpaceX Transporter-16 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ 𝗔 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 09:00 CEST / 07:00 UTC Final team preparation. Last checks, trajectory review, coordination — everyone locked in. 12:02 CEST / 10:02 UTC Launch delayed by 40 minutes → full trajectory and contact window recompute. 13:02 CEST / 11:02 UTC 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 🚀 No time to really watch it — full focus on operations. 14:01 CEST / 12:01 UTC 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 🛰️ At that point, things become very real, very quickly. ~30 minutes later 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁. 📡 TC goes out. TM comes back. First contact established. And then this message drops: “Congrats guys! Communication established with the satellite on the first pass! You rock.” 🙌 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗟𝗘𝗢𝗣 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 Once the satellite is released, you rely only on orbital predictions to find it. And with a ground antenna beam of about 1°, it’s a bit like trying to hit a fast-moving target in the sky with a very narrow flashlight 🔦 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿. Even when everything is well prepared, that first pass always comes with a bit of tension. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎢 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 A mix of stress, excitement, focus… and relief. A real emotional rollercoaster — and honestly, one of the reasons we love this job. But above all: 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 🤝 Paul Couturier, Victor Lebrun, Alexandre Michel, Surya Prakash GENJI SUDHAKAR, Stefano Ciccotosto and all Skynopy team! LEOPs only succeed when everyone plays their part at the right moment. Huge congrats to everyone involved, and to SpaceLocker for this key milestone 👏. Théophile Lagraulet, Baptiste Fournier And a big thanks also to the EnduroSat team, and in particular Dimitriy Georgiev,Yuri Pereira!

🚀 Today, a few more "users" will be added to the Skynopy network. They are leaving Earth in 1 hour. And soon orbiting at 27 000 km/h. Thanks SpaceX ⏱️ Today, the satellites whose onboard radios we’ve rigorously tested and integrated into Skynopy’s network are launching on board SpaceX Transporter-16. 🛰️ For our customers, this marks the moment everything has been building toward. For Skynopy, it’s where operations begin. 📡 As soon as the satellites reach orbit, our network is ready to establish first contact, support early operations, and ensure the fastest response when it matters most, thanks to our global network of antennas and our amazing team led by Antonin Hirsch: Paul Chapotet Paul Couturier Victor Lebrun Stefano Ciccotosto Dao Khanh Vu LE Jeremy Weill Alexandre michel Valentine Bourgeois 🤓 For us, at Skynopy, it is a stressful moment. If you are in Paris and want to attend one of the launches, do not hesitate to swing by our office, rue du Louvre 👏 Congratulations to our customers for being on the launchpad today, and fingers crossed for the next few hours We’re proud to support you on this journey. #Transporter16 #Skynopy