Re:AWS Ground Station
by vineyardmike on Monday December 27, 2021 @09:30PM
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Its probably a commercialization of a tech they already had to create to handle project kuiper. Which is Bezos's pet project.
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The overlap in work required to build AWS Ground Station and to build a production ground station network for a constellation like Kuiper seems fairly minimal [1], but it does seem like an ok way to get their feet wet while they don’t have any real satellites of their own flying.
1. Kuiper uses a different RF band (Ka vs X or S), needs an order of magnitude more ground stations, doesn’t need all the *aaS infrastructure bits)