Skynopy

🛰️ Améliorer la connectivité des satellites en orbite basse, une success story made in Skynopy En 10 mois, la startup française, co-fondée par Pierre BERTRAND et Antonin Hirsch, a levé 3 millions d’euros, signé un partenariat avec Amazon Web Services (AWS) et s’est constituée un réseau de 15 antennes sur les 5 continents.

Since we started Skynopy, we constantly asked ourselves how we can improve things: services 📡 , products 📻 , processes 🔄 ... and (why not), social events ? 🍸 👨🚀 👩🚀 Next week, 2000 space industry people are gathering in Paris for #WSBW24 organised by Novaspace (Merger of Euroconsult & SpaceTec Partners) (congratulations to Emeline Bardoux and her team 💪 ) 🇫🇷 What could Skynopy offer to them as a true Parisian experience, being in our hometown, that would be different from standard reception with standard cocktails in standard places ? 🎳 We decided to gather people around a very unique Parisian square (kept secret for now) and around a typical French game: PETANQUE 💥 That is already quite original, is that all ? No We also thought it would make this gathering special if some inspiring Space related VIP could attend and participate: 🌟 Etienne KLEIN – French physicist and philosopher Not to be too dramatic but imagine the conversations you could have with someone who holds the mysteries of space and time in the palm of their hand 🧠🌌 🌟 Michel Tognini – French astronaut and former head of the European Astronaut Center We may not be playing pétanque in space (yet 😉), but you can still toss a few with someone who’s been there! 👩🚀✨ ⏳ Spots have already filled so fast! Don’t miss your chance to be part of this special evening. Comment below to RSVP and secure one of the last remaining tickets 👇. At Skynopy, we believe that our role is to connect 📶 #WSBW #SDSS #SpacePetanque #Skynopy #SpaceIndustry #Networking

🎒 What a start to the new season! Skynopy officially won the 🌟 Rising Star 🌟 award at the #LTSF2024 organized by La Tribune Toulouse. Antonin Hirsch and I felt very surprised and thankful for this award. 🏆 A huge thank you to the jury, La Tribune, and everyone who supported us along the way. This recognition is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the entire Skynopy team: Paul, Victor, Stefano, Alexandre, Sree, Guillaume ... 🎉 We also want to extend our congratulations to our fellow nominees, Antoine Fourcade (Sirius Space Services), Clément Galic (Unseenlabs), and Peter Weiss (Spartan Space). It’s an honor to be recognized alongside such inspiring entrepreneurs! 👏 Congratulations as well to all of the other award winners: Alexandre Tisserant (Kinéis) for the person of the year, CYSEC (Mathieu Bailly) for Security, Astroscale (Philippe Blatt) for Traction, and Infinite Orbits (Adel Haddoud) for sustainable space. 🚀 Onwards and upwards! Stay tuned because September will be rich in terms of news and events. 🛰 A great event with very inspiring people from the space industry: Josef Aschbacher, Philippe Baptiste, Philippe Adam, Carole Delga, Christophe BONNAL, Michel Friedling (Gen. R.), Philippe Pham, Michel Cabirol, Maram KAIRE and many more #Skynopy #NewSpace #ÉtoileMontante #SpaceForum #LaTribune

Living the Olympics in Paris was a blast 💥 💥 How could #WSBW24 participants come to Paris without Skynopy inviting them to a very special event 👇 🥇 SKYNOPY SPACE PETANQUE Wednesday, September 18th 👩🚀 Ever wondered what it's like to play pétanque in space? Well, we’re not quite there yet, but we’re bringing the next best thing to Paris! 🎳 Wait, what is Pétanque ? It is a traditional French game similar to bocce. Picture this: tossing small metal balls on the gravel of a charming, secret Parisian square, all while enjoying cocktails and great company! 🥖 Join us in the heart of Paris for an exclusive event during World Satellite Business Week. We’re bringing together the brightest minds of the space industry for a relaxed evening of networking and fun, playing pétanque, a Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow space enthusiasts in an authentic Parisian setting. ✨ Whether you're aiming for the cochonnet or the cosmos, this is the something you don't want to miss. 🚨 If you are interested, please comment this post 👇 . Very limited tickets available... #SpacePétanque #WSBW #Skynopy #NewSpace #ParisEvents

"Broaden your opportunity surface area" 🍀🍀 I like this motto, especially when it comes to objects in orbit 🛰. I feel like it is a little what happened recently for us ⤵️ 🔄 After having co-organised events with SpaceFounders (and Space Elevator), having been a coach of the first cohorts, I am now proud to announce that Skynopy has been selected to join the best European space start-up program SpaceFounders 🇪🇺 Europe has an incredible ambition for space and we are glad to take our adventure to this new level only 10months after its creation. But since day 1, it has always be our objective with Antonin Hirsch when we decided to start Skynopy ☕ Excited for Skynopy to join such an amazing cohort of bright europeans entrepreneurs:  Volodymyr Usov (Kurs Orbital), Robert Hook (Marble Imaging), Alessia Gloder (Astradyne), Tiago Rebelo(connected), Benjamin Azoulay(OLEDCOMM) and many more... 🌟 Honored as well to join the larger family of SpaceFounders inspiring alumni: Raycho Raychev (EnduroSat), Michel Friedling (Gen. R.) (Look Up Space), Adel Haddoud (Infinite Orbits), Romain Lucken (Aldoria (formerly Share My Space)), Geoffroy Lerosey (Greenerwave)... 🙏 Thanks SpaceFounders for this ambitious initiative started and nurtured over the years (Lucie Campagnolo, Gilles Rabin, Emmanuelle Meric, Philippe Baptiste, Hélène Huby, philippe gautier)

March 2020. Covid lockdown. Instead of continuing my world travel planned for my sabbatical, I was stuck on a Greek island, teaching diving courses 🤿 . A forced adaptation, that would not be the first, neither the last... 🌊 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 🌠 After 15 years of technical and human adventures, I’ve learned to master the black magic of radio communications at all orbits: • 𝟑𝟔,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐤𝐦 with Thales Alenia Space and Eutelsat Group, developing geostationary systems to provide internet connectivity even in the most remote places. • 𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐤𝐦 with Loft Orbital, making space more accessible for today’s and tomorrow’s applications. 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑: 𝐀 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 👶👨🚀 This year brought two new adventures: Fatherhood and Entrepreneurship (yes, it is possible!) Ten months ago, with Pierre BERTRAND, we decided to create Skynopy, with a mission to simplify space communications by bringing the simplicity of mobile telephony to Low Earth Orbit satellite operators. Skynopy Today: 🌟 A talented team of about ten people, combining the best of tech and space. 💰 A first fundraising round of €3.1M in just 3 weeks. 🌍 A global network of antennas providing multiple contacts per orbit. 🤝 Key partnerships to build the connectivity infrastructure of tomorrow. 🔒 A commitment to addressing the crucial issues of data sovereignty and security. A big thank you to everyone who made this possible: Our investors: Yohan, Jimmy, Jeanne Cluset and entire team of Kima Ventures, Nicolas from Better Angle, Thibaud Elziere, Yohann, Benoit, Paul, Pauline, Maxime, Nicolas, Julien Fissette, partners, our first contracts: HEMERIA, CNES and WILCO, Agoranov for their support and trust. 🙏✨ To learn more about our adventure, read the press article on Skynopy in SpaceNews (𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠) 🔍 Want to join the adventure and communicate with space (a bit more than "Charly, do you hear us?" 😉) and join a stratospheric team combining the best of tech and space. 🌠🚀 Discover our opportunities on the careers page on our website. Stay tuned for our next steps! #Skynopy #StartupJourney #NewSpace #SatelliteTechnology #ConnectivityService

📡 Le réveil du segment sol spatial. Après s'être concentré sur les lanceurs 🚀 , puis les satellites 🛰 , il était urgent d'adresser le dernier pilier du spatial. On vous explique pourquoi 👇 📈 La démocratisation de l'orbite basse 1️⃣ Au cours des 15 dernières années, le prix d'un lancement de satellite a été divisé par 10 et les fusées de SpaceX partent en moyenne tous les 3 jours. 3 jours ! Le premier pilier du spatial que sont les lanceurs, n'est plus un facteur limitant 2️⃣ En même temps, la fabrication des satellites s'est sérialisée. J'en connais un volet puisque j'ai commencé ma carrière chez Eutelsat OneWeb et Airbus Defence and Space ( 👋 Nicolas, Arnaud, Francois). Notre objectif, atteint, était de pouvoir produire plus de 2 satellites par jour. Pendant ce temps là, le reste des industriels ont également opéré le même changement. D'autres acteurs, ont également changé le modèle économique proposant de faire du satellite-as-a-service 💡. Le deuxième pilier que sont les satellites, n'était plus non plus un facteur limitant pour les missions spatiales 🤷♂️ Mais une fois que le satellite est en orbite, comment redescendre les données et communiquer ? C'est là qu'est le problème. C'est là que Skynopy apporte une solution ✨ 🙏 Merci aux ★ Les Assises du NewSpace - Saison 3 ★ pour votre confiance, de nous avoir proposé de représenter cet évènement dans l'émission Tech & Co de l'inénarrable François Sorel. Merci François pour la qualité de vos analogies 💪 📶 Heureux d'avoir pu présenter les enjeux de la souveraineté que nous adressons à Skynopy aux côté du puissant Geoffroy Lerosey de Greenerwave et de l'inspirant Pierre-José Billotte, fondateur des ★ Les Assises du NewSpace - Saison 3 ★ , parmi ces plusieurs casquettes 🙏 Merci Samuel Mamou et l'intégralité de Alliance NewSpace France (Giao-Minh NGUYEN, Maxime Jambon, Nicolas Gaume...) qui fait un travail de fond et de prise de conscience fantastique 💪 Beaucoup de chemin reste à parcourir pour adresser cette carence française et européenne, mais on avance vite ensemble. ✨ All that is gold does not glitter, nor all those who wander are los Le lien en commentaire 👇

Two years ago, I received an email from European Space Agency - ESA saying that I was a finalist in the astronaut selection process 👨🚀. At that moment 🕑, I had no idea how the coming months of my life would unfold. 🌔 Held every 15 years, this selection process chose 5 astronauts from 23,000 applicants. I had a 1 in 8 chance of being the one who would go. Maybe go to the moon, actually. 1 in 8. After almost two years of psychotechnical 🧠, psychological, medical tests, and incredible encounters (Arnaud, Raphaël, Katherine, Slawosz, Sara), it was the final sprint. The suspense lasted until November 2022. Spoiler Alert 🚨: I wasn’t selected. 📖 Reflecting on the experience and moving on Barely consoled by the touching messages from Thomas Pesquet or Jean-François Clervoy (Officiel) and others, I went walking in Italy for a week to reflect on this experience and to grieve this dream. “If you can’t think, walk; if you think too much, walk; if you think badly, walk again,” said Jean Giono. 🥾 “What to do now?” This was the question that kept coming up on the Tuscan trails. Where could I turn my energy to? I reached Firenze, then returned to France without having completely answered this question. But knowing I was entering a new phase of my life. 👉 Getting back on track and moving forward I returned to my position at Loft Orbital 🛰️, a provider of shared satellites, currently changing the market. Deep down, my true desire has always been to make space simple and accessible to everyone. European space remained behind in this new race, despite the amazing talents that we had. 💡 And one day, during a discussion of my trusted colleague Antonin Hirsch, we asked ourselves: “Why not change painful processes? Why not start something new?” 📡 On August 31, 2023, we had a final call together and decided to team up to launch Skynopy, to offer a shared ground antennas service to satellite operators. ✨ Less than 10 months later, we are happy to announce: 🚀 The formation of an incredible, ambitious, curious, and excellent team: Paul Victor, Stefano, Sree, ... 🚀 Our first contracts: HEMERIA Centre National d'Études Spatiales LEOBLUE ... 🚀 Our record-breaking fundraising of 3.1M€ euros in less than three weeks: a huge thank you for your trust to Yohan & Jimmy from , Jeanne and the entire team at Kima Ventures, Baptiste @ Nicolas at Better Angle, Thibaud Elziere and all of our other investors (Yohann, Benoit, Paul, Pauline, Maxime, Nicolas, Julien, Matthieu, Nicolas, Fabrice,...) 🚀 Promising partnerships to be soon announced ... 🚀 And a SpaceNews article covering that news, thanks Jason Rainbow for this highlight (link in comments below 👇) --- 🙏 And a huge thank to Adrien Lelièvre for this spotlight in Les Echos (link in the comments 👇)