Satellite operators require an increasingly large, global footprint of satellite antennas and expansive ground networks to get decision makers the most recent satellite data and track and manage fast-changing conditions. Larger ground coverage areas also provide satellite operators with more options to downlink their data during each orbit.
The AWS Ground Station network allows customers to cost-effectively control satellite operations, ingest satellite data, integrate the data with applications and other services running in AWS and scale operations without having to worry about building or managing their own ground infrastructure.
StellarStation gives satellite operators a common interface to leverage ground stations from a variety of providers around the globe so they can schedule satellite passes and monitor and exchange data in a standard manner.
The combination of AWS Ground Station and StellarStation helps satellite operators provide customers with near real-time data through an expanded ground coverage area, including an automated ground network with virtual data and mission management capabilities.
Through the API integration of AWS Ground Station on StellarStation, customers will be able to schedule contacts across both ground networks from a single scheduling interface and specify data endpoints in their AWS Management Console or in their own data reception facility.
Using AWS Ground Station, Infostellar customers can immediately access AWS storage, compute, and analytics services for building custom machine learning applications that can be applied to a wide variety of data sets.
Customer onboarding, including spectrum licensing, will be coordinated between the two ground operators. Among initial customers of AWS Ground Station on StellarStation mission control software could be Japan-based space start-up ALE Co, Ltd.
Naomi Kurahara, CEO of Infostellar was quoted saying that leveraging AWS Ground Station allowed her company to expand their infrastructure rapidly and benefit their cloud-based ground service aggregation platform. Satellite customers could migrate their workload to AWS and benefit from its agility, cost savings, elasticity and global connectivity.
Jim Caggy, the General Manager of AWS Ground Station states his excitement on providing AWS Ground Station services and iterates that it makes it easy for customers to communicate with their satellites and quickly move data around the globe and process and store it in the AWS cloud.
