EKTO COMMS

Down to earth solutions for up in space problems

We are a battle-proven team in the realm of space communications combining a broad set of engineering skills with modern software practices

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We are passionate about learning by doing and we found that the best way for us to live that passion was founding a company of problem solvers around the challenges of Space Telecommunications.

We want to be judged by these yards:

To be in charge

Like the comms systems on which we work, Ektocomms also goes end-to-end. We are an all-terrain team that loves to get its wheels dirty with every aspect of the problem. We love to take care of as much parts of the problems our clients can delegate to us, and let them free mental space for their other challenges.

We love to take ill-defined problems and help trace a suitable action plan. We don't need tight specifications before taking responsibility and will accept high degrees of uncertainty.

Knowledge creation and sharing

We love learning so we consider sharing our knowledge as part of our mission. We seek not to create dependence.

We know problems are inevitable but they are also soluble, so we make them part of the learning process by reducing the time between iteration and reflection. We thoughtfully conjecture, sometimes we fail, we learn and share lessons transparently.

Meta iterative problem solving

Before mindlessly executing the first solution that pops up in our heads, we consistently try to understand the context and rapidly iterate with the client to correct and simplify the solution.

We let the problem be our teacher.

Sustainable work

We want to continue doing what we love. To achieve this, we prioritize our team's psychosocial health.

This requires autonomy for self-organization and honesty to uphold clear straightforward 📡 communication 📡 with our clients.

Finally, to ensure that our creations do not backfire, we must strive for simplicity.

SKILLS

HARDWARE

Antenna design
PCB Board design
High Frequency electromagnetic simulations
RF Electronic Board design
RF laboratory equipment
Prototyping, Manufacturing and Testing oriented design

COMMS

Satellite Link Budget
Physical Layer Design
Link Layer Design
Protocol design and implementation
Digital modulations measurement
Channel modeling
Ground Station RF Electronics Design
Software Defined Radios
Digital Signal Processing. See blog post.
Software Defined Radios
GNU Radio for prototyping, laboratory and production. See blog post.
USRP/UHD driver hacking

LINUX

General usage and Platform development
Shell scripting and tooling
Embedded development
Packaging and distribution
Drivers debugging
Containers (docker, LXC, etc.)
Networking (namespaces, routing, nftables, etc.)

SOFTWARE

Software architecture
Continuous integration
Python (numpy, scipy, pandas, etc.)
C, C++
Bash, make, awk, etc.
HTML, CSS, some JS
OpenCL
Prototyping with unit testing to very robust production code

SATELLITE

Broad knowledge of

Power
AOCS
Operations
Optical/Image payloads
Mission analysis

GENERAL

Scientific & Statistical Analysis
Robust Statistical Models of the past
Probabilistic Simulation of the future

Experience

We have effectively tackled challenges at every layer. Much of our experience was gained while developing the communications system for a new space company, where we served as the "Comms" team.

What problem do you need us to solve?

Make contact

info@ektocomms.space

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