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Does it make sense to run a ground station as a business, renting out the bandwidth to those who need it?
by tomp 8y ago
Does 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.