AWS Ground Station Documentation

Managed global ground station network

AWS Ground Station antennas are located within managed AWS locations, and are interconnected via Amazon’s global network backbone. As a result, downlinked data is designed to be stored in one AWS Region and can be sent to other AWS Regions over the global network.

Schedule satellites and download data

After onboarding your satellite to AWS Ground Station, you can schedule contacts with your satellite. After scheduling your Contact, you can launch Amazon EC2 instances to send satellite commands or receive telemetry and/or mission data. When sending satellite commands, an EC2 instance is designed to communicate over an elastic network interface (ENI) connection in Amazon VPC. . Received telemetry and/or mission data is delivered to EC2 or Lambda for processing or stored in an Amazon S3 bucket for processing.

AWS Ground Station console and APIs

You can use the AWS Management Console or AWS Ground Station APIs to reserve contacts and antenna time for your satellite communications. With AWS Ground Station’s console or APIs, you can review, cancel, and reschedule contact reservations prior to scheduled antenna times.

Digital Twin for AWS Ground Station

With AWS Ground Station digital twin, you can verify compatibility between your mission planning software and AWS Ground Station's scheduling service without needing to wait for spectrum licensing approvals or coordinate testing with publicly available antenna capacity. An AWS Ground Station digital twin is designed to emit the same Amazon EventBridge events and API responses as the production service, helping you to fine tune their configurations and dataflow endpoint groups.

The digital twin feature for AWS Ground Station is designed to provide you with virtualized ground station infrastructure for space-to-ground compatibility testing.  You can begin integration and testing using simulated spacecraft and antennas. With AWS Ground Station Digital Twin, you can verify compatibility between your mission planning software and AWS Ground Station's scheduling service.  Digital Twin is designed to emit the same Amazon EventBridge events and API responses as the production service, allowing you to tune their configurations and dataflow endpoint groups.

Additional Information

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