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(Say hi to Marshall!) And if someone has any questions about the ground side of things I work at KSAT which provides a global network of ground stations (both
by tyldum 8y ago
(Say hi to Marshall!)
And if someone has any questions about the ground side of things I work at KSAT which provides a global network of ground stations (both cubes and larger).
We often find sat builders completely forgetting about the ground segment and then struggle to communicate with the cube.
Often by using exotic encoding and/or modulation schemes or choosing frequency bands that are either too crowded or hard to license in some parts of the world.
- tomp 8y agoDoes it make sense to run a ground station as a business, renting out the bandwidth to those who need it?
- Corrado 8y agoAWS recently announced their ground station service[0] to do just this. At the time I didn't understand why they would build such a service, but reading this article and setting your comment brought it into focus for me. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/ https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/
- elkos 8y agoAlternatively if you want to have open data and share it with the community you can set up a SatNOGS ground station. Even if you don't have a Cubesat in the works. Check out wiki.satnogs.org
- tyldum 8y agoYeah, it's big business actually. Having ground stations at the right spot means a lot, but the equipment is expensive (but getting cheaper every year now). We multi-tenant our assets to provide a cost effective solution and aid in getting those licenses. From the links others posted you can see that AWS recently launched a service to compete head to head with us. It's certainly interesting to be targeted by them, to say the least.