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Systems and technologiesThe technologies that carry this industry’s observations, ranked against what it needs to observe and drawn from across the spectrum.
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Research · Systems and technologies
Research site and instrument services, observing networks that fill gaps in the global record, data with provenance from the first sample, and qualification so a result can be reproduced on another instrument. Needs: gaps in the global observing record, instrument uptime at remote sites, calibration traceability, data provenance and open publication.
Platform · Field services
Ground, RF and power surveyed before anything is chosen, installation and commissioning to the plan, a Managed Site run for you, support by plan, training on your own site, and decommissioning with every part recorded. Changes are versioned, tested and reversible.
Field servicesPlatform · Hardware & power
Every reading and every change leaves a record that can be checked later. The same design repeats from the first site to the last. It runs on the open Observatory Protocol, so other providers can join. Crews, software and records stay the same as the network grows.
Hardware & powerPlatform · Connectivity
Standalone private 5G and O-RAN, AI-RAN on shared accelerated compute, LEO and GEO backhaul and 3GPP direct-to-device, LPWAN and mesh for sensors over kilometres, PTP timing inside the budget, and the spectrum route for each country. Every reading and every change leaves a record that can be checked later.
ConnectivityPlatform · Frontier labs
Research pilots that put new instruments, radios and models on real sites, open benchmarks that compare them on the same data, and a path from a paper result to a qualified release, with the method published either way. The evidence travels with the data wherever it goes.
Frontier labsPlatform · Data & licensing
Research, commercial API, enterprise and government tiers, the licence of every source carried through to every product, routes from licensed to open release, and residency fixed by contract. It is delivered and supported by Nexus Observatory Inc. The evidence travels with the data wherever it goes.
Data & licensingPlatform · Protocol & Grid
Private and federated observing grids for networks, agencies and OEMs: providers admitted for a stated scope, devices qualified against the specification, software moved by signed plan and data exchanged across trust domains. Every step leaves evidence. Every reading and every change leaves a record that can be checked later.
Protocol & GridPlatform · Test and qualification
Lab and field testing of devices and releases, conformance runs against the protocol, interoperability events where suppliers meet on one test plan, and evidence bundles a buyer, an auditor or a regulator can check without taking our word for it.
How it scales
A programme starts with one base node and the instruments it reads. A station adds power and radio, a site adds a relay, a fleet repeats the proven site across many places, and a network federates fleets through edge and core. Capacity grows by adding units, never by replacing what works.
Updates
Software and configuration reach the fleet in rings: a canary site first, then a few, then all, each ring gated on health and data completeness. A failed gate stops the wave and returns each node to its last good release, without a site visit.
Field service
The same crew surveys, installs, commissions, calibrates and repairs, working from the site’s own record. Each visit updates it, so the next crew knows exactly what is there, when it was last checked and why it was changed. Spares and references are planned from that history.
What you get
Site power, connectivity, timing and operations for telescopes, flux towers and research stations. Delivered as managed service and professional services, for universities, research infrastructures, space agencies. Scale: Global research sites. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure on your own dashboard.
Talk to salesNext step
Tell us the sites, the measurements and the people who will use them. We reply with a design and a scope for research. An engineer replies with a survey proposal and a scope, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need, at your pace.
Plan a deploymentOpen the StudioRead the stories01Ground segment
Ground segment · Ground-station-as-a-service and antenna networks
Pay-per-pass access to antennas across many sites so missions do not have to build their own.
CCSDS 910.4-B (cross support reference model) · CCSDS 911.1-B (SLE return all frames)
Ground segment · Ground-station-as-a-service and antenna networks
Standard services that deliver frames and accept commands between a ground station and a remote mission centre.
CCSDS 911.1-B (RAF) · CCSDS 911.2-B (RCF) · CCSDS 912.1-B (forward CLTU)
Ground segment · Ground-station-as-a-service and antenna networks
Booking, deconfliction and configuration of antennas and modems for each contact.
CCSDS cross support service management
Ground segment · Ground-station-as-a-service and antenna networks
Northern sites that see polar-orbiting satellites on most orbits and cut data latency.
ITU RR Appendix 7 · Rec. ITU-R P.618
Ground segment · Ground-station-as-a-service and antenna networks
Access control, segmentation, monitoring and recovery for command and control systems.
NIST IR 8401 (satellite ground segment and the Cybersecurity Framework) · ISO/IEC 27001
Ground segment · Ground-station-as-a-service and antenna networks
Combining owned, partner and agency antennas behind one scheduling and data interface.
CCSDS 910.4-B (cross support reference model)
02Remote sensing and Earth observation
Frontier · Remote sensing and Earth observation · Tasking, ground segment and access
Laser downlink terminals that relieve radio spectrum limits, with weather-diverse site networks.
CCSDS 141.0-B (optical communications physical layer)
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Tasking, ground segment and access
Choosing what to acquire and when, modelling revisit, look angle and cloud risk against need.
OGC API – Connected Systems Part 2 (commands and tasking) · OGC Sensor Planning Service 2.0
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Tasking, ground segment and access
Standard orbit and conjunction messages used to predict passes and coordinate operations.
CCSDS 502.0-B (Orbit Data Messages) · CCSDS 508.0-B (Conjunction Data Message)
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Tasking, ground segment and access
Tracking antennas and modems for S, X and Ka-band downlink in Earth exploration-satellite allocations.
ITU Radio Regulations (EESS allocations, e.g. 8025-8400 MHz, 25.5-27 GHz) · ETSI EN 302 307-1 (DVB-S2) · CCSDS 131.0-B
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Tasking, ground segment and access
Standard services that let a mission use stations operated by others.
CCSDS Space Link Extension (SLE) services
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Tasking, ground segment and access
Receiving and processing satellite data on site for minutes-latency products without a round trip to a central archive.
WMO Direct Broadcast Network (DBNet) · CGMS direct readout guidance
03Ground segment
Ground segment · Data downlink, processing and distribution
Decommutation, calibration, geolocation and geophysical retrieval that turn raw downlink into usable products.
CEOS Analysis Ready Data framework · ISO 19115-1 (metadata)
Ground segment · Data downlink, processing and distribution
Products corrected and packaged to a common specification so users can analyse them without reprocessing.
CEOS Analysis Ready Data product family specifications
Ground segment · Data downlink, processing and distribution
Searchable catalogues of scenes and products with standard metadata.
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification · OGC API – Records
Ground segment · Data downlink, processing and distribution
Tiled, chunked formats that let users read only the part of a large raster or array they need.
OGC Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF Standard · OGC Zarr Storage Specification
Ground segment · Data downlink, processing and distribution
Ground truth, vicarious calibration and uncertainty reporting behind every product value.
CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation · QA4EO (CEOS quality assurance framework)
Ground segment · Data downlink, processing and distribution
Automated chains from request to delivered product for time-critical uses such as fire and flood.
OGC API – Processes · OGC Sensor Planning Service 2.0
04Remote sensing and Earth observation
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Processing levels and analysis-ready data
Time-ordered packets as received, with communications artefacts removed.
CCSDS 133.0-B (Space Packet Protocol) · CCSDS 131.0-B (TM synchronisation and channel coding)
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Processing levels and analysis-ready data
Radiometric and geometric corrections applied, sensor units and geolocation attached (L1A, L1B, L1C).
NASA EOSDIS data processing levels · ISO 19115-2 (imagery and gridded data metadata)
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Processing levels and analysis-ready data
Per-scene surface reflectance, temperature, backscatter, water or gas quantities at native resolution.
CEOS ARD product family specifications
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Processing levels and analysis-ready data
Space-time composites on fixed grids, and model or assimilation outputs that fill gaps.
NASA EOSDIS data processing levels · CF Conventions
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Processing levels and analysis-ready data
Products pre-processed to threshold and goal requirements so they can be stacked and compared without expert reprocessing.
CEOS ARD framework and product family specifications
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Processing levels and analysis-ready data
Removal of atmosphere, illumination and topographic effects so pixels represent the surface.
CEOS ARD Surface Reflectance · CEOS ARD SAR (Normalised Radar Backscatter)
05In situ sensors and instruments
In situ sensors and instruments · Calibration, metadata and quality control
Calibrations tied to SI standards through accredited laboratories with stated uncertainty.
ISO/IEC 17025:2017 · CIPM MRA (BIPM)
In situ sensors and instruments · Calibration, metadata and quality control
Uncertainty budgets that travel with every reading.
JCGM 100:2008 (GUM) · JCGM 200:2012 (VIM)
In situ sensors and instruments · Calibration, metadata and quality control
Travelling standards, field checks and intercomparisons between instruments.
WMO Regional Instrument Centres · WMO instrument intercomparisons
In situ sensors and instruments · Calibration, metadata and quality control
Station and instrument metadata to the WMO standard so others can interpret observations.
WMO-No. 1192 (WIGOS Metadata Standard) · WMO-No. 1160 (Manual on WIGOS, station identifiers) · OSCAR/Surface
In situ sensors and instruments · Calibration, metadata and quality control
Machine-readable descriptions of sensors, processes and sampling.
OGC SensorML 2.1 · ISO 19156:2023 · W3C/OGC SOSA/SSN
In situ sensors and instruments · Calibration, metadata and quality control
Range, rate, flat-line, spike and neighbour tests with flags on every value.
IOOS QARTOD manuals · WMO WIGOS Data Quality Monitoring System (WDQMS)
06Remote sensing and Earth observation
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Data cubes, analysis and archives
Analysis-ready stacks indexed by space, time and band so time series can be computed at scale.
OGC API – Coverages · openEO API 1.2 (OGC Community Standard) · Zarr specification v3
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Data cubes, analysis and archives
Searchable, linked records of scenes and assets so data can be found and streamed without copying.
STAC 1.1 specification · OGC API – Records
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Data cubes, analysis and archives
Phenology, trend, anomaly and break detection across years of observations.
CEOS ARD (as input requirement)
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Data cubes, analysis and archives
Agreed variables with accuracy, resolution and stability requirements that frame what to measure.
GCOS 2022 ECV requirements (GCOS-245) · GOOS Essential Ocean Variables
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Data cubes, analysis and archives
Combining satellite, airborne and ground observations with models for gap-free, validated fields.
ISO 19156:2023 (observations, measurements and samples) · WMO WIGOS
Remote sensing and Earth observation · Data cubes, analysis and archives
Keeping raw and processed data with metadata so records stay usable and reprocessable for decades.
ISO 14721 (OAIS reference model) · CCSDS 650.0-M
07Every domain
The domains whose layers serve this industry, each with its full directory.
Layers · 8 · items · 66Survey, design, deployment and operation for research. The form names who receives your details.
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