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‫So here is an service

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‫that I'm sure you won't forget once I tell you about it.

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‫It's called the AWS Ground Station.

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‫So the idea is that this is fully managed service

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‫that lets you control satellites communication,

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‫process data, and scale your satellites operations.

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‫So this is not for everyone,

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‫but you have satellites running around the Earth,

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‫a lot of them, and you may want to get access

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‫to their data for whatever reason.

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‫So Ground Station provides you a global network

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‫of satellite ground stations near AWS regions.

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‫So that it's easier for you to get data

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‫from your satellites onto your AWS cloud.

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‫So how does that work?

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‫Well, thanks to the Ground Station service,

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‫you're going to be allowed to download the satellite data

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‫to your AWS VPC within seconds.

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‫So the Ground Station runs within the cloud.

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‫It's connected to satellites,

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‫and then you download data from satellites

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‫to Amazon S3 buckets, or your EC2 instance,

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‫and from that, you can process it the way you want.

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‫So this is something, believe me,

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‫that was hard to do before the AWS Ground Station service,

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‫but now, it is very easy to do.

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‫The use cases for this,

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‫if you have access to satellites of course,

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‫is to do weather forecasting, surface imaging,

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‫communications, or video broadcast.

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‫I hope you liked this lecture,

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‫and I will see you in the stars in the next lecture.