Infostellar, Inc.
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Company Overview / Who We Are
Infostellar is a satellite 'Ground Segment as a Service' (GSaaS) provider. We provide flexible and scalable ground station services enabled by our cloud platform, 'StellarStation', which virtualizes ground station networks. By lowering the barriers to entry in the ground segment, Infostellar empowers newspace businesses to build better missions and improve the quality of their service. Founded in 2016, Infostellar is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with subsidiaries in the UK and the US.
HQ
32F Shinjuku Nomura Building, 1-26-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-0532
Established
2016
Employees
22 members
Capital
100 million JPY
Net Sales
Not Disclosed
Official Language
English
Website
Our Vision / Mission
We connect Earth and Space to empower the future
Our mission is to be the most effective enabler of space business by providing the best access to satellite (data)
Our Services / Products
Infostellar connects satellite operators to their spacecraft through a global network of ground stations. Our StellarStation platform revolutionizes the ground-services segment of the space industry by enabling satellite operators to access a diverse and ever-increasing network of antenna sites through a single cloud-based API interface. This allows operators to add ground stations to support their missions in a simple and predictable, and scalable manner.
Skills Used in the Company
- AWS
- Docker
- GCP
- Github
- Java
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Terraform
Engineering Team
Q. What projects/services is your engineering team working on?
Here at Infostellar, our software engineers are challenged with:
Developing a ground station-sharing platform which virtualizes networks by connecting different types of ground stations all over the world
Creating fast and scalable backend systems on a global infrastructure
Building an intuitive and flexible ground station service management UI (pass scheduling, SLA monitoring, billing dashboard)
Minimizing the user’s efforts to integrate with the platform to accelerate the network expansion
Ensuring the platform is secure and reliable by developing technical solutions and new tools to help mitigate security and reliability vulnerabilities and automate repeatable tasks
Q. What technologies are you using?
Development environment
Our microservices are written using Java (v.16+) built on Armeria and gRPC
Please have a look at our open source repositories: https://github.com/infostellarinc/
We do infrastructure management using Terraform and orchestrate our containers using Kubernetes
All of our services are in Google Cloud
We use Gradle to automate our builds
Source code management (SCM) is Git + GitHub
We develop on Linux using IntelliJ or Visual Studio Code
Our microservices are containerized and run on GKE
Edge devices use Docker for running applications which are written in Golang
Q. What type of engineers work at your company? What is their job content?
Software Engineer
Q. Do you plan on using any new technologies in the future?
If you’re driven by interesting, challenging problems that require sound software engineering solutions, and have always dreamt of working in the space industry, then do reach out. We’re building something special, and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
Career Path
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Our Corporate Culture
- Assertive
- Deliberate
- Flexible
- Logical
- Team Work
<<Our Values>>
- Customer Success
We are passionate about serving our customers.
We express our passion by being focused on ensuring their success as well as our own..
- One Infostellar
We are one team, each member is vital to our mission.
As a team we seek what is best for Infostellar as a whole, rather than what is best for the individual.
- Ownership
We are responsible for the company's success.
Being proactive improves our company, our product and our customer experience.
- Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to making Infostellar a place where people from all backgrounds feel like they belong and can contribute.
We care about each team member. We embrace different perspectives with respect allowing us to be a more effective team.
