With a network of satellite ground stations
located in close proximity to AWS Regions around the world
customers can download, process, store, analyze, and act upon
satellite data quicker with substantial cost savings
Capella Space, D-Orbit, Maxar Technologies,
Myriota, NSLComm, Open Cosmos, Spire, and Thales Alenia Space are
among customers and partners using AWS Ground Station
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ:AMZN), announced the general availability of AWS Ground
Station, a new service that makes it easy and cost-effective for
customers to control satellites from AWS and download data from
satellites into AWS Global Infrastructure Regions using a fully
managed network of ground station antennas located around the
world. Once customers upload satellite commands and data through
AWS Ground Station, they can quickly download large amounts of data
over the high-speed AWS Ground Station network, immediately process
it in an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, store
it in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), apply AWS
analytics and machine learning services to gain insights, and use
Amazon’s network to move the data to other regions and processing
facilities. Getting started with AWS Ground Station takes just a
few clicks in the AWS Management Console to schedule antenna access
time and launch an Amazon EC2 instance to communicate with the
satellite. There are no up-front payments or long-term commitments,
no ground infrastructure to build or manage, and customers
pay-by-the-minute for antenna access time used. To get started with
AWS Ground Station, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station
Satellites are being used by more and more businesses,
universities, and governments for a variety of applications,
including weather forecasting, surface imaging, and communications.
To do this today, customers must build or lease ground antennas to
communicate with the satellites. This is a significant undertaking
and cost because customers often require antennas in multiple
countries to download data when and where they need it without
waiting for the satellite to pass over a desired location. And the
antennas are just the beginning of the infrastructure requirements
because customers need servers, storage, and networking in close
proximity to the antenna to process, store, and transport the data
from the satellite. And then customers must build business rules
and workflows to organize, structure, and route the data to
employees or customers before it can be used to deliver value. This
requires significant capital investments and operational costs to
build, manage, and securely maintain antennas, compute
infrastructure, and business logic at each antenna location. AWS
Ground Station allows customers to more easily and cost-effectively
control satellite operations, ingest satellite data, and integrate
the data with applications and other cloud services running in
AWS.
Using AWS Ground Station, customers can save up to 80 percent of
their ground station costs by paying for antenna access time on
demand, and they can rely on AWS Ground Station’s growing global
footprint of ground stations to downlink data when and where they
need it. These ground stations are also located in close proximity
to AWS Regions around the world, so customers can store, process,
and analyze the data locally, rapidly gain insights, and then
quickly take action. The recency of data is particularly critical
when it comes to tracking and acting upon fast-moving conditions on
the ground. This timeliness depends on frequent communications
between ground stations and satellites, which can only be achieved
with a large, global footprint of antennas maintaining frequent
contact with orbiting satellites. For example, as fast-moving
environmental, geopolitical, or news events unfold on the ground,
AWS Ground Station customers can downlink current data to any of
the AWS ground stations around the world. Customers can get timely
data sooner, rapidly experiment with new applications, and deliver
products to market faster without buying, leasing, or maintaining
complex and expensive antennas and infrastructure.
“Satellite data offers customers a profound way to build
applications that help humans explore space and improve life on
Earth, but the cost and difficulty of building and maintaining the
infrastructure necessary to downlink and process the data has
historically been prohibitive for all but the most well-funded
organizations,” says Shayn Hawthorne, General Manager, AWS Ground
Station. “The goal of AWS Ground Station is to make space
communications ubiquitous and to make ground stations simple and
easy to use, so that more organizations can derive insights from
satellite data to help improve life on Earth and embark on deeper
exploration and discovery in space. Customers can rely on AWS
Ground Station’s global footprint to downlink data when and where
they need it, get timely data, and build new applications faster
based on readily available satellite data, without having to buy,
lease, and maintain complex and expensive infrastructure.”
AWS Ground Station’s self-service graphical interface makes it
easy to identify downlink opportunities, communications windows,
and schedule antenna time. This enables customers to review
confirmed times in the console and cancel or reschedule prior to
the scheduled contact time. Because AWS Ground Station antennas are
located in close proximity to AWS Regions, customers have
low-latency, local access to other AWS services to process and
store data. For example, they can use Amazon EC2 to control
satellites and downlink data, store and share the data in Amazon
Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic File System
(Amazon EFS), or Amazon S3, use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(Amazon VPC) for secure communications between Amazon EC2 instances
and the AWS Ground Station antenna gateway, hunt for real-time
business insights with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon
Elastic Map Reduce, apply machine learning algorithms and models
with Amazon SageMaker, add image analysis with Amazon Rekognition,
and improve data sets by combining satellite data with IoT sensor
data from AWS IoT Greengrass. AWS Ground Station is available
immediately in US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon) and will expand
to additional regions and locations in the coming year.
Maxar Technologies, operator of the high-resolution,
high-accuracy WorldView imaging constellation, is preparing for the
launch of its next-generation satellite constellation, WorldView
Legion, in 2021. “The addition of WorldView Legion enables us to
image the most rapidly changing areas on Earth more than 15 times
per day and triple our capacity to collect 30 cm resolution
imagery,” said Dr. Walter Scott, Maxar’s Chief Technology Officer.
“AWS Ground Station will provide us with more opportunities and
capacity to downlink and analyze the large amount of data WorldView
Legion will be sending back to Earth, enabling us to extract
insights from the data for our customers when and where it
matters.”
Thales Alenia Space, drawing on more than 40 years of experience
and a unique combination of skills, expertise and cultures,
delivers cost-effective solutions for telecommunications,
navigation, Earth observation, environmental management,
exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Governments and
private industry alike count on Thales Alenia Space to design
satellite-based systems that provide anytime, anywhere connections
and positioning, monitor Earth, enhance management of its
resources, and explore our Solar System and beyond. Thales Alenia
Space is excited to collaborate with AWS to expand its New Space
leading technologies to address the ground segment, including
providing additional tools and features for AWS Ground Station
customers. “We integrate our innovative leading space
technologies with the ones from partners within our ecosystem, such
as AWS Ground Station, to help customers optimize the use of our
planet’s – and our solar system’s – resources and to help build a
better, more sustainable life on Earth,” said Viktoria Otero del
Val, SVP Strategy, M&A and New Business Initiatives at Thales
Alenia Space.
Myriota is a satellite IoT connectivity provider that enables
customers to send small messages at ultra-low cost from anywhere on
Earth. By securely delivering data direct to a constellation of low
Earth orbit nanosatellites, Myriota’s unique patented and proven
technology provides IoT connectivity in locations where terrestrial
providers cannot operate, including oceans and the Australian
outback. As an AWS Partner, Myriota is already using AWS for its
processing and cloud-based delivery. “With massive scale, long
battery life, and direct-to-orbit connectivity for IoT, Myriota is
helping customers with vital applications, such as sensor
telemetry, low-value asset tracking, and device monitoring and
control,” said Dr. David Haley, Chief Technology Officer for
Myriota. “The AWS Ground Station Network provides an exciting
opportunity to further increase operational efficiency and
reliability for our customers at massive scale.”
Capella Space is an information services company providing
on-demand Earth observation data via advanced space radar. Capella
provides persistent, reliable, and affordable products and services
through its constellation of 36 high-resolution, high-capacity
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, which can see
through clouds and at night, permitting imaging during bad weather
or low light conditions. “We're entering a new era of Earth
observation, with near real-time access to our changing world at
our fingertips,” said Payam Banazadeh, CEO of Capella Space.
“Providing low-latency and actionable information from space is
going to change how industries utilize space. We are excited to be
collaborating with Amazon on AWS Ground Station along with Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Rekognition to
provide persistent satellite monitoring, closing coverage gaps and
delivering data that can save lives and protect our planet.”
NSLComm helps lower size, weight, and power barriers for
nanosatellite launches. NSLComm designs and manufactures
space-qualified antennas that, once in space, unfold like
parachutes to 10 times their original size, offering customers
significantly more processing power and higher throughput than
other small satellites. The small footprint and high throughput of
NSLComm antennas reduce overall satellite launch load costs,
increase transmission precision and power, and lower satellite data
transmission price. “NSLComm’s aspiration is to make nanosatellite
communications more affordable. Low-cost, high-speed satellite
communications can help provide, for example, better in-flight
connectivity. NSLComm antennas open a wide array of new
applications in the space market,” said Dr. Raz Itzhaki, founder
and CEO of NSLComm. “We are already collaborating with AWS by
integrating NSLSat-1 and NSLComm constellation design with AWS
Ground Station services to provide more affordable satellite
control and telemetry to our customers.”
D-Orbit's core service is InOrbit NOW, a large-scale, space
transportation service that delivers CubeSats into precise orbital
slots, using ION CubeSat Carrier, a sort of cargo vehicle developed
and operated by the company. Instead of simply unpacking a batch of
CubeSats in bulk into a single region of Earth’s orbit, ION CubeSat
Carrier moves across orbits, depending on the operational
requirements, and delivers each small satellite precisely where it
is supposed to go. The company also offers a space control platform
that supports the activities of ground control teams for
multi-spacecraft satellite missions. D-Orbit is committed to
promoting a positive environmental space impact, reducing the
threat of space debris to Earth, and to opening space to a wide
variety of business opportunities. “At D-Orbit, we aim at
preserving a profitable and sustainable space environment to meet
the needs of our customers, while making space safer for everyone,”
said Luca Rossettini, D-Orbit’s CEO. “Our collaboration with AWS
Ground Station, a remarkably flexible and scalable platform, is an
essential element in our roadmap towards a space logistics
infrastructure.”
Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable small satellite
missions to help solve the world’s biggest challenges and this
enables organizations from across a wide range of industries to use
space technologies as a tool. Open Cosmos removes barriers to space
access by simplifying the technology, offering a one-stop-shop to
orbit, and reducing both time and cost. Open Cosmos offers payload
development and qualification services, provides end-to-end space
missions, constellation services, and in-orbit demonstration
services. “At Open Cosmos, we are working hard to disrupt the way
the space industry operates and to open up this technology so
people can truly engage in having a global impact,” said Rafael
Jordá Siquier, CEO and Founder of Open Cosmos. “Whether it is a
local government agency wanting to predict where the next wildfire
might break out, an NGO wanting to deliver humanitarian aid, or a
telecoms company launching a service in a remote area, our
customers are having an immediate global impact with our solutions.
AWS Ground Station is perfectly aligned with our mission as it
helps us enable our customers to scale without any additional CAPEX
or OPEX investments so that they can focus on innovation and speed
instead of operational planning.”
Spire Global Inc. is a data and analytics company that collects
data from space to solve problems on Earth. Owning and operating
one of the largest satellite constellations in the world, Spire
identifies, tracks, and predicts the movement of the world’s
resources and weather systems so that businesses and governments
can make smart decisions. “Spire has witnessed a heightened
awareness and an increasingly global need for satellite-based,
Earth-observation data for business, especially in the fields of
weather, maritime, and aviation,” said Peter Platzer, CEO, Spire
Global Inc. "The flexibility of AWS Ground Station gives Spire the
ability to satisfy that growing customer demand by flexibly
augmenting our own global ground network capabilities. With AWS we
can collaboratively build a platform for a new kind of data
solution which is rapidly becoming an industry standard.”
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