Infostellar, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tokyo, is a Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS) provider. They offer satellite operators access to a global network of ground stations through their cloud platform, StellarStation, which virtualizes ground station networks. This allows operators to manage satellite downlinks and uplinks, as well as real-time telemetry, tracking, and control, using a single API. Infostellar partners with various organizations, including Saber Astronautics and Dhruva Space, to expand its network and services.
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Based on the funds raised in the Series B first round, Infostellar will increase the number of ground stations available through the StellarStation platform, enter the U.S. market, and grow its customer base.
Since March 2021, Infostellar has been providing downlink services for commercial satellites to European government agencies.
Since raising funds in March 2020, Infostellar has been improving the functions of its GSaaS platform StellarStation for commercial satellite communications use.
Infostellar completed the first round of its Series B fundraising for a total of ￥700 million ($6,160,000) through a third-party allotment of shares.
In January 2021, Infostellar completed demonstration experiments with satellites in orbit.
Naomi Kurahara is CEO of Infostellar and leveraged AWS Ground Station to expand Infostellar’s infrastructure rapidly to benefit its cloud-based ground service aggregation platform.
Using AWS Ground Station, Infostellar customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to manage data ingestion from satellites.
Infostellar previously targeted a network of 20 partner ground stations by 2018 but encountered licensing, regulatory, and technical challenges that prevented reaching that goal.
Infostellar raised $3,500,000 in new funds on 2020-04-29 from Airbus Ventures and other investors.
Infostellar has raised $11,500,000 since forming in 2016 to provide communications services to small satellite operators.
Infostellar operates a network of 13 partner ground stations.
Infostellar began service in 2018 with StellarStation, a cloud platform that lets satellite operators use idle time on other operators’ ground stations to communicate with spacecraft.
Infostellar concluded that a network of 20 ground stations was not necessary to offer service and will add ground stations based on customer demand.
Infostellar is seeking an additional $1,200,000 by June 2020 to bolster its finances against challenges from the coronavirus pandemic.
Infostellar raised the $3,500,000 through a convertible bond sale to existing investors Airbus Ventures and the Sony Innovation Fund.
Capricorn Space signed an agreement allowing InfoStellar customers to use its two ground stations.
Infostellar raised $7,300,000 in a Series A funding round in September 2017.