{"id":64358,"title":"🛰 Quindar - Automated Satellite Operations","tagline":"Satellite Mission Management as a Service","body":"Hey everyone! **Today we’re launching** [**Quindar**](https://www.quindar.space/), **a web app used by satellite owners to track, contact, monitor and operate** **satellites from deployment into space until end-of-life.** For example, NASA could use Quindar to test and operate their satellites with minimal human intervention.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=64358\u0026key=user_uploads/1003779/68b30bb5-43ce-4cfc-87f5-ebfafd3e3cdc)\n\nWe’re six former [OneWeb](https://oneweb.net/) engineers who helped build the software that operates the second largest satellite constellation today – at 428 and counting. After OneWeb, we built another operations center for an earth imaging constellation but today we are building a unified platform for every satellite owner.\n\n### **The Satellite Industry Problem**\n\nCurrent satellite mission software solutions are a mix of COTS products that was built over 20 years ago.\n\n* ☁️  Not cloud native\n* 🛰  Created for a handful of satellites\n* 🔐  Outdated security\n* 💽  Rarely web native\n\nThere are 4,500 active satellites in orbit today however **1,700 will be launched** **each year** through 2030. The space industry is shifting from companies launching a handful of satellites over a decade, to launching hundreds of satellites in just a few years.\n\n**The traditional model of many engineers operating a few satellites doesn’t scale.**\n\n### **The Quindar Solution**\n\nQuindar provides satellite mission management as a service. Our platform:\n\n* Allows only a single engineer to operate hundreds of satellites.\n* Includes the software to track, contact, and monitor satellites. No installation required.\n* Integrates seamlessly with AWS and Atlas antennas (more to come).\n* Aggregates and analyzes satellite, antenna, and infrastructure anomalies.\n* Accessible from any phone or computer.\n* Built on AWS GovCloud with the latest FedRAMP and NIST security controls.\n\n### **Why the world needs Quindar**\n\nOur mission is to democratize space. To be the IT for what are essentially flying servers. Customers need to focus on their mission - image collection and resolution, docking to another spacecraft, landing on an asteroid, or broadband from space and let us manage the infrastructure and software utility that supports it.\n\n### **How you can help**\n\n**If you, your friends, or colleagues are trying to launch a satellite please reach out to us at** [**founders@quindar.space**](mailto:founders@quindar.space)**.** We’d love to save them the pain of building and managing a software team and all the gotcha’s that come with satellite ops! Friends don’t let friends build their own mission ops 🙅.\n\nEmail: [founders@quindar.space](mailto:founders@quindar.space)\n\nWebsite: \u003chttps://quindar.space/\u003e\n\nAd Astra,\n\n[@Nate Hamet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanhamet/), [@Matt Regan](https://linkedin.com/in/matthew-regan-a0a45238), [@David Lawrence](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lawrence-58663691/), [@Sunny Bhagavathula](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandilya-sunny-bhagavathula-13780b47/), [@Shaishav Parekh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaishavparekh), Zach Meza","slug":"Gk2-quindar-automated-satellite-operations","created_at":"2022-07-06T00:59:39.013Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T00:30:39.623Z","total_vote_count":21,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gk2-quindar-automated-satellite-operations","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":27052,"name":"Quindar","slug":"quindar","url":"https://www.quindar.space","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bab55689155fe5f27aa4e87f73ddcae81fde5f8b.png","batch":"Summer 2022","industry":"B2B","tags":["SaaS","Space Exploration","Satellites","Aerospace"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27052"}}