AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites

Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by tzakrajs on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @03:57PM (#18546608)

Of intelligence data there is. Read up on ITAR and EAR. So you don’t think that the satellites AWS will interface with will be facing earth with sensors?

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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by garmaine on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @03:58PM (#18546639)

I’ve worked in an ITAR industry. This topic isn’t about intelligence data :)

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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by cbanek on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:20PM (#18546891)

Agree, I also worked under ITAR restrictions in the launch industry.

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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by Rebelgecko on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @07:26PM (#18548197)

ITAR is pretty limited in what it considers intelligence/military. Unless you're looking for missile launches or doing remote sensing with technologies that are better than what's available to the general public, it probably won't apply. There's plenty of interesting things you can do without running afoul of ITAR/USML definitions.

Some telemetry and sensor data may be EAR99, which is as far as export restrictions go is about as nonrestrictive as it gets. For example iTunes is EAR99— that's why the EULA says you're not allowed to use it to develop nuclear or biological weapons.

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