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Field environments

Ground station

An 11 m class antenna and its companions on a fenced pad, with edge compute that turns each pass into catalogued products before the next one.

Tour transcript

  1. A ground station: the main antenna, its companions and the edge.
  2. The main antenna tracks a pass from mask to mask.
  3. Each pass becomes catalogued, analysis-ready products at the edge.

In this scene

main-ant
Tracks each pass from mask to mask; S-band commands up, X-band data down. (CCSDS 131.0-B, ITU-R SA.1027)
Compute racks
Processes a pass to analysis-ready products and catalogues them before the next pass. (STAC 1.0, CEOS ARD)