AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites

(It’s helpful for the first post to be a summary, right?)

“Instead of building your own ground station or entering in to a long-term contract, you can make use of AWS Ground Station on an as-needed, pay-as-you-go basis... You don’t need to build or maintain antennas, and can focus on your work or research.

“We’re starting out with a pair of ground stations today, and will have 12 in operation by mid-2019. ... [T]he raw analog data from the satellite is processed ... and routed to an EC2 instance that is responsible for doing the signal processing to turn it into a byte stream.”