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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by _Microft on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @05:58AM (#18550627)
What problem does this solve?
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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by SiempreViernes on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @06:07AM (#18550658)
It would finally put the cloud in the sky! Marketing will be ecstatic over all the sky based puns they'll be allowed.

Also, I guess it would solve the problem of it being expensive to put things in space by virtue of somehow having made someone else pay for vast overcapacity of sensors.

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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by _Microft on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @06:26AM (#18550720)
You might like ... Fog Computing [0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_computing

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