Space Startup Provides Mission Control as a Service (MCAAS)
Space Startup Spotlight: Spaceit
The delivery of orbital payloads, all rely on one thing and one thing — communication with ground control. This is the place Spaceit, a thoroughly impressive aerospace startup company has established itself.
Mission control as a service (MCAAS) is providing access to all of the best ground control networks, through cloud-based links for thorough satellite command and control. It is this product that Spaceit has innovated and refined, offering an unprecedented new direction of convenience and security for those launching the satellite payloads of tomorrow.
Who is Spaceit?
Spaceit, an Estonian company, is comprised of a team of advanced specialists, all passionate about engineering, systems-based communications, and designing the products of tomorrow. Many of the team have had a passion for all things related to space for years, allowing that childhood wonder combined with raw pragmatism to result in an extremely high standard of output.
Founded in 2015 by CEO Silver Lodi and co-founder Mihkel Jalakas, the startup has gone from strength to strength, even receiving funding from the European Union’s prestigious Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, after launching as part of the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre. Lodi, a man with thorough ambition and the true experience to back up those forward pursuits, has extensive experience in sales and banking, providing the commercial gravitas the team needs. Respectively, his aforementioned co-founder Mihkel Jalakas is a front-end development lead for Spaceit, bringing his software development expertise to a nuanced and remarkable new set of mission control innovations.
Lauri Kimmel is the expert MCS development lead with thorough experience as an architect, developer, and was part Estonia’s first satellite mission ESTCube-1. Serving as Spaceit’s CTO, you could say the company is in great hands. Ivar Suisalu, Maria Jäärats and Hanna-Liisa Pender serve as Developer and two front-and-back-end UX designers respectively. This hit team of expert designers, researchers, and innovators have a mixed set of talents that allow for their software design to promote and
What Does Spaceit Offer?
Spaceit is known for its innovations in MCAAS engineering. Their mission control as-a-service platform uses satellite telemetry to give you access to your unit through any secure mobile device, at any time. They also take out the front-end maintenance from the picture, allowing you seamless access without worrying about data backups or security flaws. This also gives them the chance to grant immediate telemetry handling, a worldwide integration with ground station networks, payload data delivery and more.
But this isn’t all. They also broker the operations between themselves and many ground station networks, offering the procurement of and distribution of radio communication equipment, allowing clients the robust customized experience they need. This, coupled with the world-class support befitting a sensitive and highly-valuable operation such as this, propels customer satisfaction out of the atmosphere, much like the satellites their integrated services help to manage.
Spaceit’s software offers a clean and simple UI, so you can easily managing your satellite while in orbit. Low cost and easy onboarding, with accessible features and customized solutions provide the bulk of the positive user experience on offer. This, with tools to monitor telemetry, networks, even monetizing your radio communication allowances shows that Spaceit is there for the long haul for the clients they build relationships with daily.
Not only that, but Spaceit is an active player in the exhibition space, recently attending the 70th International Astronautical Congress to promote their service and network with like-minded people in the field.
As such, they have proven themselves as the startup to watch, a flagship enterprise to be in the Estonian space industry and abroad, as well as a service you can rely on. You can visit their website, their Twitter page, their Facebook profile and LinkedIn listings via the links provided.
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