Challenges & Solutions
Challenges
- Ground station contact windows are minutes long — transfer must be instant
- Satellite telemetry is high-volume and latency-critical for operations
- Earth observation imagery is petabytes per day per constellation
- Launch monitoring must be 100% reliable with zero single point of failure
CloudFormation Solves
- AWS Ground Station contacts scheduled and provisioned via Terraform
- Kinesis for real-time satellite telemetry ingestion at scale
- S3 + SageMaker for Earth observation image processing pipeline
- Multi-region redundancy eliminates single point of failure for launches
Architecture Patterns
1
Ground Station
AWS Ground Station contacts via Terraform. S3 delivery within seconds. Up to 100 Mbps downlink. Contact history tracked in DynamoDB.
2
Telemetry Processing
Kinesis → Lambda health monitoring → DynamoDB satellite state → Timestream history → QuickSight mission dashboards.
3
Earth Observation
S3 imagery → SageMaker Processing (classification, change detection) → GeoServer on ECS → API Gateway customer access.
4
Launch Infrastructure
Real-time pad sensors → Kinesis → Lambda anomaly detection → EventBridge → SNS alerts. Multi-region, zero single point of failure.
Business Outcomes
Real-time
Satellite telemetry
Petabytes
EO data processed
100%
Launch monitoring uptime
Global
Ground station network
Supported Cloud Providers
AWS
Azure
GCP
IBM Cloud
Oracle Cloud
Kubernetes
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