I was actually in a seminar a couple of weeks ago given by the head of Ground Station :). Pretty remarkable that a company like Amazon allows for experiments l

I was actually in a seminar a couple of weeks ago given by the head of Ground Station :). Pretty remarkable that a company like Amazon allows for experiments like Ground Station. They have a pretty clear business model and I think that it will help to open up the sector even further, in the sense that now you can just grab your satellite data in pretty much the same way you operate on AWS otherwise. It's also interesting, because Amazon came somewhat late to the game and sorta blew open the market. Friends of mine founded Leaf Space [1] and they've sorta built a similar concept from the ground up, deploying antenna around the world. Then you've got efforts like KSAT Lite [2], InfoStellar [3], ATLAS [4], and RBC Signals [5], so it's a pretty hot market at the moment. I'm excited about AWS entering into the market because I believe it'll accelerate development of some pretty cutting-edge technologies like laser satcom, that will change the way we think of data from space. [1] https://leaf.space https://leaf.space [2] https://www.ksat.no/en/news/2016/january/ksat%20lite-network https://www.ksat.no/en/news/2016/january/ksat%20lite-network [3] https://www.infostellar.net https://www.infostellar.net [4] https://www.atlasground.com https://www.atlasground.com [5] http://rbcsignals.com http://rbcsignals.com