Overview of AWS Ground Station
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AWS Ground Station allows customers to control satellites and ingest data without having to build or lease ground stations. The service provides fully managed ground stations with pay-as-you-go pricing and self-service scheduling. Customers can access AWS services with minimal latency to process and analyze satellite data. Example use cases include monitoring natural disasters, improving weather prediction, and assessing business trends using satellite imagery.
Overview of AWS Ground Station
- 1. AWS Ground Station © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 2. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Current state of ground stations • Overview of AWS Ground Station • User Interface • Use cases
- 3. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Ground Station Solutions Current Solutions: • Build ground stations • Sign long-term leases • Purchase excess bandwidth
- 4. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. What CustomersWant Ground Stations with: • No CAPEX commitments • On-demand scalability • Minimal data latency • Direct access to cloud services • Simple and transparent pricing Government Higher Education Businesses GroundStation Data Center
- 5. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. WhatAWS Ground Station Provides Ground Stations with: • No infrastructure commitments • Pay-for-what-you-use pricing • Self-service scheduling • Minimal latency due to close proximity with AWS data centers • Direct access to AWS services, infrastructure, and network at the antenna Government Higher Education Businesses AWS Ground Station
- 6. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. What DoesThe Cloud Give Us?? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Hours 150 Mbps 350 Mbps 10 Gbps 15 HOURS 6 HOURS 13 MINUTES 64tB
- 7. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. AWS Ground Station Architecture Antenna System Onboarding Scheduling Propagation & Location sync AWS Ground Station Customer VPC NAT Solution Downlink Uplink Security and Identity AWS SDK Command & Control Radio Front End Processor BYO: Bring your own Orchestration AWS CONSOLE Monitor BYO BYO BYO BYO Digitizer / Radio Front End Processor
- 8. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Service Capabilities at Preview • Preview Started: Q4 2018 • Preview Ends: Q2 2019 • Supported orbits: • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) • Frequencies supported at Preview: • Simultaneous narrowband S-band, X-band and UHF downlink • North America coverage: Ohio and Oregon
- 9. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Service Capabilities at Launch • Supported orbits: • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) • Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) • Simultaneous narrowband S, X and UHF band downlink • Simultaneous narrowband S and UHF band uplink • Simultaneous wideband X-band downlink • Global coverage in 2019
- 10. User Interface © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 11. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. AWS Ground Station Landing Page
- 12. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. AWS Ground Station Contacts
- 13. Use Cases © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 14. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Use Cases Natural Disasters Accurate Weather Prediction Business Trends Assessment During natural disasters you can rapidly analyze downlinked imagery data to identify survivors, assess structural damages, and immediately stream this data to first responders and rescue teams. You can apply analytics and machine learning to this data to identify the safest exit routes and best locations for temporary shelters and emergency medical facilities. You can use the AWS Cloud to analyze downlinked weather data from all over the world to more accurately predict weather patterns. This can be used to help ships, airplanes, trucks and people increase their awareness of inclement weather in their area and then safely and efficiently avoid dangerous situations. You can use radar satellite imagery of your various business facilities such as parking lots, logistic centers, and retail stores to autonomously measure cars, traffic and customer flow patterns, even when its dark or cloudy weather conditions.You can combine this with other AWS services like analytics and machine learning, along with time of day and weather conditions, to assess business and operational trends in real-time. These insights can be immediately streamed to relevant business analysts and decision makers anywhere in the world.
- 15. Summary © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 16. © 2018 Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. AWS Ground Station Easily control satellites and ingest data with fully managed ground stations • No ground stations to build • Pay-for-what-you-use • Self-service scheduling • Immediate access to AWS services • Innovate rapidly
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Editor's Notes
- #4: Customers currently have three options for communicating with their satellites: (1) build ground antennas, (2) obtain long-term leases on ground antennas, or (3) purchase excess bandwidth from existing ground stations (similar to Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Pricing).
- #6: AWS Ground Station is a self-service, managed, ground station solution that will enable customers to communicate with satellites from 12 locations around the globe. Customers can schedule AWS Ground Station antennas on a per minute basis and pay only for their scheduled time. When using AWS Ground Station, customers can downlink data from their satellites, monitor their satellites’ health and status, and uplink commands to their satellites from their AWS console or APIs. AWS Ground Station makes it easy for customers to download data and control their satellites without building any ground station infrastructure. Downlinking data directly to an antenna in close proximity to AWS regions, minimizes latency and provides access to data rapidly. AWS Ground Station enables customers to save CAPEX and OPEX while taking advantage of the scalability, reliability, and services offered by AWS. Notes: Data can also be passed to the customer’s preferred data center or cloud vendor depending on requirements. We are also exploring ground station locations based on customer demand independent of data center location. These will be directly linked to nearby data centers still offering the benefit of low data latency.
- #8: AWS Ground Station architecture. End users reserve a “contact” period, when their satellite will be passing over a specific ground station, through a custom API or the AWS management system. During that “contact” period the satellite will connect to AWS Ground Station in order to downlink data or command a satellite (uplink).