Ground Station as a Service: a data guide for Space Startups
Summary
Launch companies, satellite operators, and mega-constellations being a threat to the industry with remarkable future potential for market disruption – we covered all of this in our previous articles, but there’s still something missing. Furthermore, historically it has always been necessary to negotiate with the individual ground stations to get a communication slot assigned – here is where the as-a-Service business model comes into play. Besides a significant cut in costs and requirements, there are multiple benefits to this business model: • Customers can concentrate on building the satellite and the application layer, knowing ground station services are already available for use. In the case of the EU Copernicus Program, the satellites’ high-resolution instruments currently generate approximately 20 terabytes of data every day. In this context, Exploitation Platforms (EP) are virtual workspaces that provide user communities with access to large volumes of data, algorithm development and integration environment, processing software and services, computing resources, and collaboration tools.
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