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As an individual who certainly doesn't have any satellites in orbit and really doesn't have any space-specific skills beyond KSP, but who has enough money to bl
by juliansimioni 5y ago
As an individual who certainly doesn't have any satellites in orbit and really doesn't have any space-specific skills beyond KSP, but who has enough money to blow on $10/minute fees, is there anything I could do with this?
Not illegal or nefarious things either, but could I do something like listen in on data being transmitted down by an existing satellite (say something like Hubble or Landsat that will eventually result in public data anyway)?
- bellatrix21 5y agoThis AWS blog post does something like that: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/earth-observation-using-aws-ground-station/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/earth-observation-...
- kochie 5y agoAbsolutely, so it’s possible to connect to weather satellites like NOAA-20 and Aqua and pull down the data from them as they pass. Check out the CloudFormation templates to get started. 1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ground-station/latest/ug/custome https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ground-station/latest/ug/custome... 2. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ground-station/latest/ug/choose- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ground-station/latest/ug/choose-...
- solarkraft 5y agoA limited version is actually possible with relatively cheap components: https://youtu.be/cjClTnZ4Xh4 https://youtu.be/cjClTnZ4Xh4
- rosndo 5y ago> Not illegal or nefarious things either Well, now I’d love to know about exciting illegal things one could theoretically do with this. Maybe pop a root shell on a satellite and have the coolest bouncer on efnet? Maybe you could spy on satphones? But I guess AWS would be prohibitively expensive for that.