> While working at Facebook, Winston sometimes dealt with imagery delivered through FTP servers or physical hard drives. My company is a consumer of remote sen

> While working at Facebook, Winston sometimes dealt with imagery delivered through FTP servers or physical hard drives. My company is a consumer of remote sensing data and we get basically all of our data from FTP. A more modern delivery mechanism would be very useful. If you can achieve data locality by downlinking data directly into AWS (groundstation) I could see that as a great benefit for customers who run their infrastructure in AWS. Especially as you get sparser data, data locality becomes a larger and larger issue. > Today, buying commercial satellite imagery involves a back-and-forth with a salesperson in a sometimes months-long process, with high prices that exclude all but the biggest companies. As a consumer of remote sensing data, my company has identified the data ordering process as one of our largest barriers to scaling our business. Our end goal is very similar to yours: we want our services to be available to anyone with a credit card and the full process should be automated. Currently, all remote sensing data has to be manually ordered which means we can never fully automate until our data providers automate. Let me know if you have any questions on our use-cases for data providers. I have put a contact email in my bio.