03-10 Ground Station
AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process data, and scale your operations without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure. #aws-service
Use Cases for Ground Station
- weather forecasting
- surface imaging
- communications
- video broadcasts
Using the Ground Station
- You schedule a Contact (select satellite, start and end time, and the ground location)
- use the AWS Ground Station EC2 AMI to launch EC2 instances that will uplink and downlink data during the contact or receive downlinked data in an Amazon S3 Bucket.
Example
A company reaches an agreement with a Satellite Imagery Provider to
take satellite photos of a specific region. They use AWS Ground Station to
communicate that company’s Satellite and download the S3 image data.