Where does one get the satellite to rent?
There’s dozens of them up there. You rent time and bandwidth on a telecom satellite.
AWS Ground Station
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s unclear to me is, if any company can run their own satellite fleet, even micro ones, can they really not afford to run their own ground stations too? What’s the target customer profile of this service exactly?
Running your own flock is far from the norm. The target is likely the media/broadcast industry.
I came to say this. Some folks just have intermittant needs. I want to a remote hookup for Z minutes at x time from y sat.
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#73This was sufficiently close in timing that I wasn't sure for a moment whether this was just an early caught April Fools. Then again, the more I think about it, the more this makes sense. Satellite business is hard and capital intensive enough as it is, for starters in the micro-satellite business it would be absolutely prohibitive to run their own hardware just to receive those signals.
They do have some impressive "I didn't know anyone would need that!" services. I also love this one:
https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
> AWS Snowmobile is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck. (...)
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#74A bit of a tangent, but how feasible is it for Starlink to crowdsource their ground stations? Let people contribute to the constellation by putting up antennas on top of their fiber connections (perhaps via solar roofs).
I think hard thing about Spacex is gonna be all the legalities across the planet of establishing an ISP. In some places it's demonopolised, but in some seems it might require to put up their own network.
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#75This was sufficiently close in timing that I wasn't sure for a moment whether this was just an early caught April Fools. Then again, the more I think about it, the more this makes sense. Satellite business is hard and capital intensive enough as it is, for starters in the micro-satellite business it would be absolutely prohibitive to run their own hardware just to receive those signals.
They do have some impressive "I didn't know anyone would need that!" services. I also love this one: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ > AWS Snowmobile is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck. (...)
They also have Snowballs, which are luggage-sized versions of the Snowmobile that can be shipped. They have a built-in e-ink display for the shipping label.
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#76I thought this was an April fools joke once I clicked on the link. The bandwidth they are operation on (54 MHz) is ridiculous though! Truly sci-fi-ish stuff going on here. Also, did Amazon build this from scratch or did they acquire a company that had the basic infra for this kind of stuff?
Not really, that's the bandwidth of an average mid-end SDR like LimeSDR(300$) or BladeRF(500$)
I have never heard of a LimeSDR putting out a 54Mhz wide signal for broadcast. Can you describe how you are configuring things?
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#77I thought this was an April fools joke once I clicked on the link. The bandwidth they are operation on (54 MHz) is ridiculous though! Truly sci-fi-ish stuff going on here. Also, did Amazon build this from scratch or did they acquire a company that had the basic infra for this kind of stuff?
I was curious bout this as well. Do people get 500 Mhz allocations? Or are there no allocations because things are directional? I think they support a 500Mhz wide downlink?
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#78> To add satellites to your account, please email aws-groundstation@amazon.com with the NORAD ID, your FCC license information, and your customer account number and someone will contact you. Does anyone know how to get a NORAD ID?
You get one for free if you launch a satellite.
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#79Thank god I now have an easy way to communicate with all my satellites.
You joke. But maybe you’ve never considered what satellite data applications you could have written because it wasn’t easy to do in the past?
True enough for me at least. But now that I have thought about it, I yet remain of GPs opinion.
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#80Could this be used for downlink only? For example, to pull down NOAA satellite data?
I'm like 90% sure it would be cheaper to just build your own antenna and an RTL-SDR setup to do that sort of thing yourself. There's no way it's cost effective for that.
Wait, shouldn't there be some sort of authentication step? The only barrier to communicating with satellites is the equipment?!