Skynopy Presentation

Skynopy is a fast-growing New Space company developing a next-generation Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) platform. By federating our own antennas with a global network of partners, we enable seamless, API-driven access to satellite data.

Founded in 2023 by former Loft Orbital executives, Skynopy now operates 15+ ground stations worldwide. We’re building the most responsive, secure and scalable ground infrastructure for LEO satellites, and recently closed a €15 million seed round to accelerate the deployment of sovereign, cloud-integrated, mission-grade stations.

We serve high-performance Earth Observation delivering real-time, resilient, and sovereign communication capabilities.

Skynopy Infrastructure

The cloud-based infrastructure allows satellite operators to communicate with their satellites. Skynopy unifies multiple ground station antenna networks in a single interface.

It is composed of:

A control plane to allow satellite operators to book contacts* with their satellites. **Behind the API, the control plane orchestrates the various ground station networks.
A data plane that drives the data between the satellite operator infrastructure and the ground station antennas, uplink and downlink.
A network of Ground Station antenna providers

*a contact is a communication slot, it is linked to the moment when a satellite passes over a ground antenna and when data is exchanged

Your mission

As an intern, you will be able to collaborate with and be guided by the developer team of Skynopy. You will be able to learn and work with a team of skilled people.

Contribute to Skynopy software development (30%)

To enable you to ramp up on space operation and get a global picture of the Skynopy software, you will contribute to the platform development. Helped by the team, you will be working on small feature implementations such as:

coding a simple API endpoint in the backend
add logs on a component of the infrastructure to enhance observability
improve the testing and the deployment of components

Integrate a “Mission Control Software” (70%)

In addition to the overall development of Skynopy infrastructure you will be in charge of your project: selecting and integrating a Mission Control Software into our infrastructure. You will be supervised and helped to be able to add this new brick.

Skynopy’s customers use a Mission Control Software (MCS) **to control their satellites. The MCS connects to Skynopy Infrastructure to:

send Telecommands (TC) to a satellite: uplink data including position orders and mission plan specifications.
receive the satellites Telemetries (TM): downlink data including TC acknowledgments and health metrics.

These data are streamed in real-time by a TM/TC interface to which the MCS connects.

The MCS integration will allow Skynopy to go a step further in the end-to-end test pipeline so that Skynopy can act as a user of its solution. Then, the MCS will be used in real operational cases.

The internship will include the following tasks:

Selection of a suited and modern Open Source Mission Control Software (Yamcs, OpenC3…)
Installation and configuration of the MCS
Integration in the Skynopy infrastructure: development of an adapter to connect to the TM/TC interface
Preparation of fake TM/TC data to mock a full communication pipeline
Preparation of real TM/TC data for live contact

In addition to the end-to-end testing objectives, the MCS integration will become an additional component of Skynopy’s communication solution. Skynopy could recommend to its customers to use the chosen MCS, which would ease Skynopy’s solution integration.

Requirements

You are a student at an engineering school
You have already built or helped to build a web software application
You are passionate about coding and software technologies.
You can synthesize a problem well and communicate clearly about it.
You are interested in discovering the French space sector (no need for any experience in this).
You are fluent in English.

Nice to have

You have already worked on a REST/GraphQL API.
You have already implemented features on a backend.
You have already worked on a cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
You have designed simple CI/CD pipelines.
You are familiar with internet protocols and OSI layers.

Location: Paris, France

Type: Internship

For more information please contact: recruiting@skynopy.com