Re:Decoding James Webb Space Telescope
by Thorentis on Monday December 27, 2021 @04:09PM
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Groundststion as a Service. I had no idea this existed. I am continuously amazed at how many things Amazon churns out "as a service".
Re:Decoding James Webb Space Telescope
by aunty_helen on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:05PM
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It's pretty amazing. I found out about it a couple months ago from a job posting that wanted a programmer for a cube sat. It seems like this is what they're aiming the service for at the moment.
And really, it's the perfect place for aws to enter, add glue, and provide a service to let you do your core business. Feels like the future man.
Nice link, very informative, here's a funny excerpt :
"It [JSWT] is currently planned to be launched
in 2013 from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5
launch vehicle".
Re:Decoding James Webb Space Telescope
by aunty_helen on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:07PM
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I couldn't find a publish date in the pdf but going off the url I'm going to guess that it was from 2008.
It's a little bit annoying finding information about jwst as info could potentially be old and out of date. Another document that I read mentioned using XML as the database format because XML was an emerging standard :S
>To keep up with the high downlink, the recorder data gets sent directly to the Ka-band transmitter
Currently aws groundstation doesn't support KA band so no luck there. It's apparently going to do a transmission once a day so you would need to time it right with the ground station.