October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
..., the multi-mission model supports many missions from any one ground station. Additionally, in offering access to ground stations as a service, a global network of antennas is capable of supporting many operators and missions simultaneously, while...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... a better cost. The same is expected to happen for NewSpace, with operators leveraging ground stations as a service, rather than building and operating ground stations on their own. But to get there, a shift in perspective is required and likely some...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... into the space industry (AWS and Azure) and the virtualisation of ground station services. Commercial EO players are open to a fully/partially outsourced ground service model, thereby generating cloud-related data traffic in this segment. SAR...
October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
...the satellite industry the journey to virtualisation has already begun as the Earth observation sector is driven by Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) providers, such as Microsoft Azure Orbital. DIFI Members have created a standard that is both open...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... impressive example of this new, ‘golden age’ of EO was a test run by Maxar where the Amazon Web Services ‘ground station as a service’ infrastructure was exploited to access data from one of its satellites as it passed overhead. Within less than...
