Dutch space startup Hiber has been in the news a lot for the past couple of days. Recently, the Amsterdam-based NewSpace company is celebrating the lift-off of its second “HiberBand” nano-satellite at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in India. The government of the Netherlands backed Hiber to come up with this global satellite solution, opening the door for the 90% of the world currently unable to use connected tech.
Founded by Coen Janssen, Erik Wienk, Ernst Peter Hovinga, Laurens Groenendijk, and Maarten Engelen, a team of satellite experts and tech entrepreneurs, Hiber recently collaborated with Amazon Web Services and was named the AWS Commercial Launch Startup of 2018 on the 25th November.