Podcasts about ground station

SpaceX has announced that the company will be moving its headquarters from California to Texas. The US and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have signed a strategic cooperation agreement on civil space research and exploration. LeoLabs has been selected to support the launch and operations of the UK Space Command's Project Tyche by delivering space tracking and monitoring, and collision avoidance services, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Dan Dumbacher, CEO of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).  You can connect with Dan on LinkedIn and learn more about AIAA's ASCEND on their website. Selected Reading Elon Musk says SpaceX and X move to Texas due to California trans law SpaceX says it's ready to resume launches after a failed mission from the Central Coast | KCLU Riyadh And Washington Strengthen Their Strategic Partnership In The Field Of Space LeoLabs Selected to Support the United Kingdom's First Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Satellite in Low Earth Orbit Ramon.Space Expands into the UK to Revolutionize Space Computing and Communication Systems Dhruva Space Receives Authorisation from IN-SPACe for Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) NASA Ships Moon Rocket Stage Ahead of First Crewed Artemis Flight' Space For Humanity Announces Emily Calandrelli As Cap Ambassador Africa is doubling down on its space ambitions -CNN What do we gain from going back to the Moon? The Race for Space-Based Solar Power- WIRED Astronaut gives honest TripAdvisor review of living in space- KTLA T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China's Chang'e 6 mission capsule containing 2 kilograms of lunar far side soil samples has returned to Earth. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the third Reusable Launch Vehicle Landing Experiment. Airbus predicts a €900 million hit in the first half 2024 in its Space Division, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Ryan Westerdahl, CEO and Founder of Turion Space.  You can learn more about AWS Aerospace and Satellite on their website.  Selected Reading China has just returned the first-ever samples from the far side of the moon Hat-trick for Pushpak: India's Reusable Launch Vehicle aces third landing Engine maker's Boeing dilemma helped to stall Airbus's output plans- Reuters Firefly Aerospace Adds Alpha Launch Capability on Wallops Island, Virginia Maritime Launch Services Receives Infrastructure Reimbursement Program Approval from the Province of Nova Scotia for the Construction of a $30M Satellite Processing Facility at Spaceport Nova Scotia The Egyptian Space Agency Announces 2024 Launch Plans Sidus Space and NamaSys Bahrain Sign MOU to Establish “Sidus Arabia” JV Headquartered in Saudi Arabia to Develop a State-of-the-Art 3D Printing Satellite Manufacturing Facility | Business Wire Malaysian Space Agency (MYSA) partners with SpaceIn for Ground Station and IoT Development ispace-U.S. to use Swedish Space Corporation's Lunar Ground Station Network for its M3 Lunar Mission NASA Sets Launch Coverage for NOAA Weather Satellite  Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business- WIRED AST SpaceMobile Announces Executive Leadership Team for Next Phase of Accelerated Growth | Business Wire ReOrbit selects Mynaric's CONDOR Mk3 for Space-to-Space and Space-to-Ground Laser Communications Demonstration Texas man with less than $1 in account offers $200M to bail out space company: SEC T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the past few weeks, China's relations with Latin America and the Caribbean have been making headlines. Newsweek published an exclusive story about plans to create a Chinese-run special economic zone on the island of Antigua that will have a port, a dedicated airline, its own customs and immigration procedures, and be able to issue passports. An international crypto services zone will offer opportunities to participate in cryptocurrency operations from mining to dealing.The Americas Quarterly reported that China has expressed interest in building a port complex near the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of South America, which is considered the most important natural passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. From there, according to the Americas Quarterly, Beijing could grow its presence in the region and also project influence in Antarctica.And in late April, China held the first China-Latin American and Caribbean States Space Cooperation Forum, which opened with a congratulatory letter from Xi Jinping applauding the high-level space cooperation partnership in which he emphasized the benefits of marrying China's mature space technology with the unique geographic advantage of the countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region.To discuss Chinese interests in and strategy toward the Latin America and Caribbean region–known as the LAC–host Bonnie Glaser is joined by Leland Lazarus. He is the Associate Director of National Security at Florida International University's Jack D. Gordon Institute of Public Policy and an expert on China-Latin America relations. He formerly served as the Special Assistant and Speechwriter to the Commander of US Southern Command and as a State Department Foreign Service Officer, with postings in Barbados and China.  Timestamps[02:30] China's Interest in LAC Countries[04:44] Implementation of BRI in LAC Countries[07:23] China's Investment in Energy Development[09:39] Huawei's Penetration into LAC Countries[11:57] Role of Perú in Beijing's Regional Strategy[14:56] China-LAC Cooperation in Space[20:56] Receptivity of China to LAC Countries[25:30] How should the US compete against China in LAC? 

NASA celebrates the newest class of Astronaut graduates as it puts out a call for new applicants. Terran Orbital is awarded an Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a $45 million ceiling value by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate. The UK Government has included up to £160 million for the connectivity in low Earth orbit program known as CLEO in the Spring Budget, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Dr Elaina Hyde, Director of York University's Allan I Carswell Observatory. You can connect with Elaina on LinkedIn and learn more about the observatory at York University on their website. Selected Reading NASA Opens Astronaut Applications as Newest Class Graduates https://twitter.com/lunarloral/status/1765001718163509569 Terran Orbital Awarded Up To $45 Million IDIQ by NASA to Support Space Technology Advancement- Business Wire Agile Space Receives SpaceWERX Contract for Innovative Mobile Payload Processing Center Space Force agencies pile on to find 'alternate PNT' capabilities - Breaking Defense Elve Secures $15M in Series A Funding to Increase Manufacturing and Expand Customer Base- Business Wire GITAI Successfully Demonstrates Robotics Construction Capabilities for Lunar Communications Towers C-LEO Programme - GOV.UK Spring Budget 2024 speech - GOV.UK Meridian Space Command moves to Space Park Leicester Dhruva Space and Swedish Space Corporation expand Ground Station network synergies, indicative of the long-standing Indo-Swedish bilateral cooperation Is it time for a new Outer Space Treaty? Reports of Russian nuclear space weapon raise questions NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried Commentary: As space travel becomes more commercial, Florida must keep up The Lost Universe - NASA Science T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc.

Over 20,000 smallsats are being launched over the next decade driven by the growing demand for data and services across the globe. All these new constellations need scalable, flexible, and on-demand ground services. This is driving the growth of the Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) market. The market grew at 8.5% CAGR over the last five years and will continue to grow at a slightly slower pace over the next five years according to Euroconsult. To delve deeper into the GSaaS market and its future, we have with us today, Giovanni Pandolfi Bortoletto, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Office of Leaf Space – a GSaaS provider that operates a fully owned, globally distributed network of ground stations.

An interview with Chris Jackson, Head of Space Operations and Ground Segment at the Te Pūnaha Ātea - Auckland Space Institute based in the University of Auckland. He is overseeing the design and set up of the Institute's Mission Operation Centre and Ground Station. He is also developing the operations support and building the capability of the centre to support large scale satellites and developing the business for national and international missions like MethaneSAT. Chris has a long and illustrious career working for Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) in the UK as Chief Engineer and Architect to many satellite projects including the Galileo and EutelSat missions.  Prior to that he had also worked for Airways New Zealand for almost a decade. In this interview, we learn about how his focus on systems engineering has open up doors for managing numerous missions as cheif operations engineer in multiple organizations in NZ and abroad.ResourcesAerospace Programs in New ZealandMaster of Aerospace Engineering, University of AucklandSpace Science, Victory University WellingtonAerospace Engineering, Univeristy of CanterburySpace Mission Analysis and Design, Wiley Larson and James WertzHosted by: Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, Co-Founder and CEO, SpaceBaseMusic: reCreation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons (3.0)If you like our work, please consider donating to SpaceBase through the SpaceBase Open Collective. Or be a SpaceBase Patreon sponsor.  (E.g. $3 dollars a month or $36 NZD a year will go a long way in supporting the production of the podcast.)

Episode 48 is a conversation with Giovanni Pandolfi Bortoletto, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Leaf Space, about Ground Segment as-a-Service and its benefits to the space industry.Leaf Space is a ground segment developer, operator, and service provider based in Italy. In this podcast, we discuss: It is never too early to start planning your ground segment. RF Licensing is mandatory and can require months to be issued and it is good practice to avoid problems near to launch date The amount of money and time saved by choosing a GSaaS solution is really not negligible and still, an excellent quality of service is delivered By selecting a Ground Segment as-a-Service provider, satellite operators easily avoid financial uncertainties and unknown risks related to the ground segment's deployment and maintenance You can find out more about Leaf Space here on their satsearch supplier hub.And if you would like to learn more about the space industry and our work at satsearch building the global marketplace for space, please join our newsletter.[Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/when-we-get-there License code: Y4KZEAESHXDHNYRA] 

What You Need to Know About The Great Ground Station Game Part 2 This week is the second and final episode looking at what rarely comes to mind when we talk about space - the ground. This week is about the great ground game being played out in what has traditionally been in the U.S. sphere of influence - South America. The southern continent is where Chinese entities have access to or wholly manage a rough dozen ground stations, which has caused some concern in defense circles. To understand just what is going on below the equator, Laura Winter speaks with Matthew Funaiole, Vice President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' iDeas Lab, and a senior fellow of China Power Project; and Brian Hart, a CSIS fellow with the China Power Project. Their report “Eyes on the Skies - China's Growing Space Footprint in South America” can be found here: https://features.csis.org/hiddenreach/china-ground-stations-space/.

What You Need to Know About The Great Ground Station Game Part 1 This week's episode and the next are all about what rarely comes to mind when we talk about space - the ground. This week is about the great game being played out in the High North on the strategic ground where the U.S., its allies, and adversaries, have located critical ground station infrastructure and the capabilities to disrupt and destroy satellite communications. To explain just what's going on, Laura Winter speaks with Greg Falco and Nicolò Boschetti both from the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), a joint Whiting School of Engineering and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory research institute. Falco and Boschetti recently published the paper “Commercial Space Risk Framework Assessing the Satellite Ground Station Security Landscape for NATO in the Arctic and High North”, which can be found here: https://bit.ly/CommercialSpaceRiskFramework

South Africa is to host a ground station for NASA to communicate with the Artemis lunar exploration programme at Matjiesfontein. This is great news for SANSA. Also a plug for the 2023 Sky Guide Southern Africa published by Penguin Random House / Struik Nature.

Episode 41 of the Space Industry podcast is a discussion with Gonzalo Crespo, Aerospace Manager at satsearch member EOSOL Group.EOSOL Group is a global engineering and technical assistance services company. With experience in more than 40 countries around the world, the company operates in the strategic energy, industry, automobile, civil works, telecommunications, space, and defense sectors.In this episode we discuss the development of ground segment antennas and feeds, and their uses in modern space missions and services. We cover: The architecture of a ground station and the different kinds of ground antenna on the market today The differences in requirements of NewSpace missions vs. traditional space missions The innovations in the ground segment driven by the growing demand for higher frequency communications How ground stations can provide flexibility for the market while maintaining performance and cost-effectiveness The major trends in ground antennas and feeds, and what these mean for space missions You can find out more about EOSOL Group here on their satsearch supplier hub.And if you would like to learn more about the space industry and our work at satsearch building the global marketplace for space, please join our weekly newsletter.[Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/when-we-get-there License code: Y4KZEAESHXDHNYRA] 

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 6 July 2022: In this special episode, we mark the 60th anniversary of the launch of Telstar 1: the world's first active telecommunications satellite. On only its second day in orbit, the satellite relayed the first live television pictures broadcast across the Atlantic. The satellite captured the imagination of people all around the globe and sparked a new age of instant worldwide communications. The event also inspired a chart-topping musical tribute. "Telstar" is a 1962 instrumental recording originally written and produced by Joe Meek for the English band the Tornados. In December 1962, the track reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Listen to an eerie goodwill recording from John F. Kennedy to the people of Japan relayed by Telstar 2 only two days before the U.S. president's assassination in Dallas, Texas. Telstar made one place in the United Kingdom very well-known to the public: the British Telecom (BT) ground station at Goonhilly in Cornwall. A BT feature outlines the history and operation of the Goonhilly facility. The Space Show in conversation with Robert Gough, the Head of Business Development for Australia and Asia-Pacific, Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd, Goonhilly Downs, Helston, Cornwall. The Telstar satellites were superseded by the Intelsat series of satellites. Early Bird 1 (Intelsat 1-F1) was the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geostationary orbit in April 1965.

About JakeTechnical Lead by day at the Met Office in the UK, leading a team of software developers delivering services for the UK. By night, gamer and fitness instructor, attempting to get a home cinema and gaming setup whilst coralling 3 cats, 2 rabbits, 2 fish tanks, and my wonderful girlfriend.Links: Met Office: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakehendy TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: It seems like there is a new security breach every day. Are you confident that an old SSH key, or a shared admin account, isn't going to come back and bite you? If not, check out Teleport. Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all of your infrastructure. The open source Teleport Access Plane consolidates everything you need for secure access to your Linux and Windows servers—and I assure you there is no third option there. Kubernetes clusters, databases, and internal applications like AWS Management Console, Yankins, GitLab, Grafana, Jupyter Notebooks, and more. Teleport's unique approach is not only more secure, it also improves developer productivity. To learn more visit: goteleport.com. And not, that is not me telling you to go away, it is: goteleport.com. Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Redis, the company behind the incredibly popular open source database that is not the bind DNS server. If you're tired of managing open source Redis on your own, or you're using one of the vanilla cloud caching services, these folks have you covered with the go to manage Redis service for global caching and primary database capabilities; Redis Enterprise. To learn more and deploy not only a cache but a single operational data platform for one Redis experience, visit redis.com/hero. Thats r-e-d-i-s.com/hero. And my thanks to my friends at Redis for sponsoring my ridiculous non-sense.  Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. It's often said that the sun never sets on the British Empire, but it's often very cloudy and hard to see the sun because many parts of it are dreary and overcast. Here to talk today about how we can predict those things in advance—in theory—is Jake Hendy, Tech Lead at the Met Office. Jake, thanks for joining me.Jake: Hey, Corey, it's lovely to be here. Thanks for inviting me on.Corey: There's a common misconception that its startups in San Francisco or the culture thereof, if you can even elevate it to being a culture above something you'd find in a petri dish, that is where cloud stuff happens, where the computer stuff is done. And I've always liked cutting against that. There are governments that are doing interesting things with Cloud; there are large companies and ‘move fast and break things' is the exact opposite of what you generally want from institutions that date back centuries. What's it like working on Cloud, something that for all intents and purposes didn't exist 20 years ago, in the context of a government office?Jake: As you can imagine, it was a bit of a foray into cloud for us when it first came around. We weren't one of the first people to jump. The Met Office, we've got our own data centers, which we've proudly sit on that contains supercomputers and mainframes as well as a plethora of x86 hardware. So, we didn't move fast at the start, but nowadays, we don't move at breakneck speeds, but we like to take advantage of those managed services. It gets out of the way of managing things for us.Corey: Let's back up a second because I tend to be stereotypically American in many ways. What is the Met Office?Jake: What is the Met Office? The Met Office is the UK's National Meteorological Service. And what does that mean? We do a lot of things though with meteorology, from weather forecasting and climate research from our Hadley Centre—which is world-renowned—down to observations, collections, and partnerships around the world. So, if you've been on a plane over Europe, the Middle East, Africa, over parts of Asia, that plane took off because the Met Office provided a forecast for that plane. There's a whole range of things we can talk about there, if you want Corey, of what the Met Office actually does.Corey: Well, let's ask some of the baseline questions. You think of a weather office in a particular country as, oh okay, it tracks the weather in the area of operations for that particular country. Are you looking at weather on a global basis, on a somewhat local basis, or—as mentioned—since due to a long many-century history it turns out that there are UK Commonwealth territories scattered around the globe, where do you start? Where do you stop?Jake: We don't start and we don't stop. The Met Office is very much a 24/7 operation. So, we've got a 24/7 operation center with staff constantly manning it, doing all sorts of things. So, we've got a defense, we work heavily with our defense colleagues from UK armed forces to NATO partners; we've got aviation, as mentioned; we've got marine shipping from—most of the listeners in the UK will have heard of the shipping forecast at one point or another. And we've got private sector as well, from transport, to energy, supermarkets, and more. We have a very heavy UK focus, for obvious reasons, but our remit goes wide. You can actually go and see some of our model data is actually on Amazon Open Data. We've got MOGREPS, which is our ensemble forecast, as well as global models and UK models, with a 24-hour time lag, but feel free to go and have a play. And you can see the wide variety of data that we produce in just those few models.Corey: Yeah, just pulling up your website now; looking at where I am here in San Francisco, it gives me a detailed hour-by-hour forecast. There are only two problems I see with it. The first is that it's using Celsius units, which I—Jake: [laugh].Corey: —as a matter of policy, don't believe in because in this country, we don't really use things that make sense in measuring context. And also, I don't believe it's a real weather site because it's not absolutely festooned with advertisements for nonsense, which is apparently—I wasn't aware—a thing that you could have on the internet. I thought that showing weather data automatically meant that you had to attempt to cater to the lowest common denominator at all times.Jake: That's an interesting point there. So, the Met Office is owned and operated by Her Majesty's Government. We are a Trading Fund with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. But what does that mean it's a Trading Fund?k it means that we're funded by public money. So, that's called the Public Weather Service.But we also offer a more commercial venture. So, depending on what extensions you've got going on in your browser, there are actually adverts that do run on our website, and we do this to help recover some of the cost. So, the Public Weather Service has to recover some of that. And then lots of things are funded by the Public Weather Service, from observations, to public forecasting. But then there are more those commercial ventures such as the energy markets that have more paid products, and things like that as well. So, maybe not that many adverts, but definitely more usable.Corey: Yeah, I disabled the ad blocker, and I'm reloading it and I'm not seeing any here. Maybe I'm just considered to be such a poor ad targeting prospect at this point that people have just given up in despair. Honestly, people giving up on me in despair is kind of my entire shtick.Jake: We focus heavily on user-centered design, so I was fortunate in their previous team to work in our digital area, consumer digital, which looked after our web and mobile channels. And I can heartily say that there are a lot of changes, had a lot of heavy research into them. Not just internal, getting [unintelligible 00:06:09] and having a look at it, but what does this is actually mean for members of the? Public sending people out doing guerrilla public testing, standing outside Tescos—which is one of our large superstores here—and saying, “Hey, what do you think of this?” And then you'd get a variety of opinions, and then features would be adjusted, tweaked, and so on.Corey: So, you folks have been a relatively early adopter, especially in an institutional context. And by institution, I mean, one of those things that feels like it is as permanent as the stones in a castle, on some level, something that's lasted more than 20 years here in California, what a concept. And part of me wonders, were you one of the first UK government offices to use the cloud, and is that because you do weather and someone was very confused by what Cloud meant?Jake: [laugh]. I think we were possibly one of the first; I couldn't say if we were the first. Over in the UK, we've got a very capable network of government agencies doing some wonderful, and very cloud things. And the Government Digital Service was an initiative set up—uh, I can't remember, and I—unfortunately I can't remember the name of the report that caused its creation, but they had a big hand in doing design and cloud-first deployments. In the Met Office, we didn't take a, “Ah, screw it. Let's jump in,” we took a measured step into the cloud waters.Like I said, we've been running supercomputers since the '50s, and mainframes as well, and x86. I mean, we've been around for 100 years, so we constantly adapt, and engage, and iterate, and improve. But we don't just jump in and take a risk because like you said, we are an institution; we have to provide services for the public. It's not something that you can just ignore. These are services that protect life and property, both at home and abroad.Corey: You have provided a case study historically to AWS, about your use cases of what you use, back in 2014. It was, oh, you're a heavy user of EC2, and looking at the clock, and oh, it's 2014. Surprise. But you've also focused on other services as well. I believe you personally provided a bit of a case study slash story of round your use of Pinpoint of all things, which is a wrapper around SES, their email service, in the hopes of making it a little bit more, I guess, understandable slash fully-featured for contacting people, but in my experience is a great sales device to drive business to its competitors.What's it been like working, I guess, both simultaneously with the tried and true, tested yadda, yadda, yadda, EC2 RDS style stuff, but then looking at what else you're deep into Lambda, and DynamoDB, and SQS sort of stands between both worlds give it was the first service in beta, but it also is a very modern way of thinking about services. How do you contextualize all of that? Because AWS has product strategies, clearly, “Yes.” And they build anything for anyone is more or less what it seems. How do you think about the ecosystem of services that are available and apply it to problems that you're working on?Jake: So, in my personal opinion, I think the Met Office is one of a very small handfuls of companies around the world that could use every Amazon service that's offered, even things like Ground Station. But on my first day in the office, I went and sat at my desk and was talking to my new colleagues, and I looked to the left and he said, “Oh, yeah, that's a satellite dish collecting data from a satellite passing overhead.” So, we very much pick the best tool for the job. So, we have systems which do heavy number crunching, and very intense things, we'll go for EC2.We have systems that store data that needs relationships and all sorts of things. Fine, we'll go RDS. In my space, we have over a billion observations a year coming through the system I lead on SurfaceNet. So, do we need RDS? No. What about if we use something like S3 and Glue and Athena to run queries against this?We're very fortunate that we can pick the best tool for the job, and we pride ourselves on getting the most out of our tools and getting the most value for money. Because like I said, we're funded by the taxpayer; the taxpayer wants value for money, and we are taxpayers ourselves. We don't want to see our money being wasted when we got a hundred size auto-scaling group, when we could do it with Lambda instead.Corey: It's fascinating talking about some of the forward-looking stuff, and oh, serverless and throw everything at Cloud and be all in on cloud. Cloud, cloud, cloud. Cloud is the future. But earlier this year, there was a press release where the Met Office and Microsoft are going to be joining forces to build the world's, and I quote, “Most powerful weather and climate forecasting supercomputer.” The government—your government, to be clear—is investing over a billion pounds in the project.It is slated to be online and running by the middle of next year, 2022, which for a government project as I contextualize them feels like it's underwear-on-outside-the-pants superhero speed. But that, I guess, is what happens when you start looking at these public-private partnerships in some respects. How do you contextualize that? What is the story behind, oh, we're—you're clearly investing heavily in cloud, but you're also building your own custom enormous supercomputer rather than just waiting for AWS to drop one at re:Invent. What is the decision-making process look like? What is the strategy behind it?Jake: Oh. [laugh]. So—I'll have to be careful here—supercomputing is something that we've been doing for a long time, since the '50s, and we've grown with that. When the Met Office moved offices from Bracknell in 2002, 2003, we run two supercomputers for operational resilience, at that point [unintelligible 00:12:06] building in the new building; it was ready, and they were like, “Okay, let's move a supercomputer.” So, it came hurtling down the motorway, plugged in, and congrats, we've now got two supercomputers running again. We're very fortunate—Corey: We had one. It got lonely. We wanted to make it a friend. Yeah, I get it.Jake: Yeah. It's long distance; it works. And the Met Office is actually very good at running projects. We've done many supercomputers over the years, and supercomputing our models, we run some very intense models, and we have more demands. We know we can do better.We know there's the observations in my group we collect, there's the science that's continually improving and iterating and getting better, and our limit isn't poor optimizations or poorly written code. They're scientists running some fantastic code; we have a team who go and optimize these models, and you know, in one release, they may knock down a model runtime by four minutes. And you think, okay, that's four minutes, but for example, if that's four minutes across 400 nodes, all of a sudden you've now got 400 nodes that have then got four minutes more of compute. That could be more research, that could be a different model run. You know, we're very good at running these things, and we're very fortunate with very technically capable to understand the difference between a workload that belongs on AWS, a workload that belongs on a supercomputer.And you know, a supercomputer has many benefits, which the cloud providers… are getting into, you know, we have a high performance clusters on Amazon and Azure, or with, you know, InfiniBand networking. But sometimes you really can't beat a hunking great big ton of metal and super water-cooling, sat in a data center somewhere, backed by—we're very fortunate to have one hundred percent renewable energy for the supercomputer, which is—if you look at any of the power requirements for a supercomputer is phenomenal, so we're throwing that credentials behind it for climate change as well. You can't beat a supercomputer sometimes.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle HeatWave is a new high-performance accelerator for the Oracle MySQL Database Service. Although I insist on calling it “my squirrel.” While MySQL has long been the worlds most popular open source database, shifting from transacting to analytics required way too much overhead and, ya know, work. With HeatWave you can run your OLTP and OLAP, don't ask me to ever say those acronyms again, workloads directly from your MySQL database and eliminate the time consuming data movement and integration work, while also performing 1100X faster than Amazon Aurora, and 2.5X faster than Amazon Redshift, at a third of the cost. My thanks again to Oracle Cloud for sponsoring this ridiculous nonsense. Corey: I'm somewhat fortunate in the despite living in a world of web apps, these days, my business partner used to work at the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Lab, helping with the care and feeding of the supercomputer clusters that they had out there. And you're absolutely right; that matches my understanding with the idea that there are certain workloads you're not going to be able to beat just having this enormous purpose-built cluster sitting there ready to go. Or even if you can, certainly not economically. I have friends who are in the batch side of the world, the HPC side of the world over in the AWS organizations, and they keep—“Hey, look at this. This thing's amazing.”But so much of what they're talking about seems to distill down to, “I have this one-off giant compute task that needs to get done.” Yes, you're right. If I need to calculate the weather one time, then okay, I can make an argument for going with cloud but you're doing this on what appears to be a pretty consistent basis. You're not just assuming—as best I can tell that, “And starting next Wednesday, it will be sunny forever. The end.”Jake: I'm sure many people would love it if we could do weather on-demand.Corey: Oh, yes. [unintelligible 00:15:09] going to reserved instance weather. That would be great. Like, “All right. I'd like to schedule some rain, please.” It really seems like it's one of those areas that is one of the most commonly accepted in science fiction without any real understanding of just what it would take to do something like that. Even understanding and predicting the weather is something that is beyond an awful lot of our current capabilities.Jake: This is exactly it. So, the Met Office is world-renowned for its research capabilities and those really in-depth, very powerful models that we run. So, I mentioned earlier, something called MOGREPS, which is the Met Office's ensemble-based models. And what do we mean by ensembles? You may see in the documentation it's got 18 members.What does that mean? It means that we actually run a simulation 18 times, and we tweak the starting parameters based on these real world inputs. And then you have a number of members that iterate through and supercomputer runs all of them. And we have deterministic models, which have one set of inputs. And you know, it's not just, as you say, one time; these models must run.There are a number of models we do, models on sea state as well, and they've all got to run, so we generally tend to run our supercomputers at top capacity. It's not often you get to go on a supercomputer and there'll be some space for your job to execute right this minute. And there's all the setup as well, so it's not just okay, the supercomputer is ready to go, but there's all the things that go into it, like, those observations, whether it's from the surface, whether it's from satellite data passing overhead, we have our own lightning network, as well. We have many things, like a radar network that we own, and operate. We collaborate with the environment agency for rainfall. And all these things they feed into these models.Okay, now we produce a model, and now it's got to go out. So, it's got to come off the supercomputer, it's got to be processed, maybe the grid that we run the models on needs to be reprojected because different people feed maps in different ways. Then there's got to be cut up because not every customer wants to know what the weather is everywhere. They've got a bit they care about. And of course, these models aren't small; you know, they can be terabytes, so there's also a case of customers might not want to download terabytes; that might cost them a lot. They might only be able to process gigabytes an hour.But then there's other products that we do processing on, so weather models, it might take 40 minutes to over an hour for a model to run. Okay, that's great. You might have missed the first step. Okay, well, we can enrich it with other data that's come in, things like nowcasting, where we do very short runs for the next six-hour forecast. There's a whole number of things that run in the office. And we don't have a choice; they run operationally 24/7, around the clock.I mentioned to you before we started recording, we had an incident of ‘Beast from the East' a number of years back. Some of your listeners may remember this; in the UK, we had a front come in from the east and the UK was blanketed with snow. It was a real severe event. We pretty much kept most of our services running. We worked really hard to make sure that they continued working.And personally I say, perhaps when you go shopping for Black Friday, you might go to a retailer and it's got a queue system up because, you know, it mimics that queue thing when you're outside a store, like in Times Square, and it's raining, be like oh, I might get a deal a minute. I think possibly in the Met Office, we have almost the inverse problem. If the weather's benign, we're still there. People rely on us to go, “Yeah, okay. I can go out and have fun.” When the weather's bad, we don't have a choice. We have to be there because everybody wants us to be there, but we need to be there. It's not a case of this is an optional service.Corey: People often forget that yeah, we are living in a world in which, especially with climate change doing what it's doing, if you get this wrong, people can very easily die. That is not something to take lightly. It's not just about can I go outside and play a pickup game of basketball today?Jake: Exactly. So, you know, operationally, we have something called the National Severe Weather Warning Service, where we issue guidance and alerts across the UK, based on severe weather. And there's a number of different weather types that we issued guidance for. And the severity of that goes from yellow to amber to red. And these are manually generated products, so there's the chief meteorologist who's on shift, and he approves these.And these warnings don't just go out to the members of the public. They go out to Cabinet Office, they go out to first responders, they go out to a number of people who are interested in the weather and have a responsibility. But the other side is that we don't issue a weather warning willy-nilly. It's a measured, calculated decision by our very capable operations team. And once that weather system has passed, the weather story has changed, we'll review it. We go back and we say what could we have done differently?Could the models have predicted this earlier? Could we have new data which would have picked up on this? Some of our next generation products that are in beta, would they have spotted this earlier? There's a lot of service review that continually goes on because like I said, we are the best, and we need to stay the best. People rely on us.Corey: So, here's a question that probably betrays my own ignorance, and that's okay, that's what I'm here to do. When I was a kid, I distinctly remember—first, this is not the era wish the world was black and white; I'm a child of the '80s, let's be clear here, so this is not old-timey nonsense quite as much, but distinctly remember that it was a running gag how unreliable the weather report always was, and it was a bit hit or miss, like, “Well, the paper says it's going to be sunny today, but we're going to pack an umbrella because we know how this works.” It feels, and I could be way off base on this, but it really feels like weather forecasting has gotten significantly more accurate since I was a kid. Is that just nostalgia, and I remember my parents complaining about it, or has there been a qualitative improvement in the accuracy of weather forecasting?Jake: I wish I could tell you all the scientific improvements that we've made, but there's many groups of scientists in the office who I would more than happily shift that responsibility over to, but quite simply, yes. We have a lot of partners we work with around the world—the National Weather Service, DWD in Germany, Meteo France, just to name but a few; there are many—and we all collaborate with data. We all iterate. You know, the American Meteorological Society holds a conference every year, which we attend. And there have been absolutely leaping changes in forecast quality and accuracy over the years.And that's why we continually upgrade our supercomputers. Like I said, yeah, there's research and stuff, but we're pulling in all this science and Meteorology is generally very chaotic systems. We're still discovering many things around how the climate works and how the weather systems work. And we're going to use them to help improve quality of life, early warnings, actually, we can say, oh, in three days time, it's going to be sunny at the beach. Be great if you could know that seven days in advance. It would be great if you knew that 14 days in advance.I mean, we might not do that because at the moment, we might have an idea, but there's also the case of understanding, you know, it's a probability-based decision. And people say, “Oh, it's not going to rain.” But actually, it's a case of, well, we said there's a 20% probability is going to rain. That doesn't mean it's not going to, but it's saying, “Two times out of ten, at this time it's going to rain.” But of course, if you go out 14 days, that's a long lead time, and you know, you talk about chaos theory, and the butterfly moves and flaps its wings, and all of a sudden a [cake 00:22:50] changes color from green to pink or something like that, some other location in the world.These are real systems that have real impacts, so we have to balance out the science of pure numbers, but what do people do with it? And what can people do with it, as well? So, that's why we talk about having timely data as well. People say, “Well, you could run these simulations and all your products take longer to process them and generate them,” but for example, in SurfaceNet, we have five minutes to process an observation once it comes in. We could spend hours fine-tuning that observation to make it perfect, but it needs to be useful.Corey: As you take a look throughout all of the things that AWS is doing—and sure, not all of these are going to necessarily apply directly to empowering the accuracy of weather forecasts, let's be clear here—but you have expressed personal interest in for example, IoT, a bunch of the serverless nonsense we're seeing out there. What excites you the most? What has you the most enthusiastic about what the future the cloud might hold? Because unlike almost everyone else I talk to in this space, you are not selling anything. You don't have a position—that I'm aware of—that oh, yeah, I super want to see this particular thing win the industry because that means you get to buy a boat.You work for the Met Office; you know that in some cases, oh, that boat is not going to have a great time in that part of the world anyway. I don't need one. So, you're a little bit more objective than most people. I have pushing a corporate story. What excites you? Where do you see the future of this industry going in ways that are neat?Jake: Different parts of the office will tell you different things, you know. We worked with Google DeepMind on AI and machine learning. We work with many partners on AI and machine learning, we use it internally, as well. On a personal level, I like quality of life improvements and things that just make my life as both the developer fun and interesting. So, CDK was a big thing.I was a CloudFormation wizard—still hate writing YAML—but the CDK came along and it was [unintelligible 00:24:52] people wouldn't say, but that wasn't, like, know when Lambda launched back in, what, 2013? 2014? No, but it made our lives easier. It meant that actually, we didn't have to worry about, okay, how do we do templating with YAML? Do we have to run some pre-processes or something?It meant that we could invest a little bit of time upfront on CDK and migrating everything over, and then that freed us up to actually doing things that we need for what we call the business or the organization, delivering value, you know? It's great playing with tech but, you know, I need to deliver value. And I think, what was it, in the Google SRE book, they limit the things they do, toiling of manual tasks that don't really contribute anything, they're more like keeping the lights on. Let's get rid of that. Let's focus on delivering value.It's why Lambda is so great. I could patch an EC2, I can automate it, you know, you got AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager, or… whatever its name is, they can go and manage all those patches for you. Why when I can do it in a Lambda and I don't need to worry about it?Corey: So, one last question that I have for you is that you're a tech lead. It's easy for folks to fall into the trap of assuming, “Oh, you're a government. It's like an enterprise only bigger, slower, and way, way, way busier.” How many hundreds of thousands of engineers are working at the Met Office along with you?Jake: So, you can have a look at our public report and you can see the number of staff we have. I think there's about 1800 staff that work at the Met Office. And that includes our account manage, that includes our scientists, that includes HR and legal. And I'd say there's probably less than 300 people who work in technology, as we call it, which is managing our IT estate, managing our Linux estate, managing our storage area networks because, funnily enough, managing petabytes of data is not an easy thing. You know, managing a supercomputer, a mainframe.There really aren't that many people here at the office, but we do so much great stuff. So, as a technical lead, I'm not just a leader of services, but I lead a team of people. I'm responsible for them, for empowering them, and helping them to develop their own careers and their own training. So, it's me and a team of four that look after SurfaceNet. And it's not just SurfaceNet; we've got other systems we look after that SurfaceNet produces data for. Sending messages around the world on the World Meteorological Organization's global telecommunications system. What a mouthful. But you know, these messages go all around the world. And some people might say, “Well, I got a huge team for that.” Well, [unintelligible 00:27:27]. We have other teams that help us—I say, help us—in their own right, they transmit that data. But we're really—I personally wouldn't say we were huge, but boy, do we pack a punch.Corey: Can I just say on a personal note, it's so great to talk to someone who's focusing on building out these environments and solving these problems for a higher purpose slash calling than—and I will get letters for this—than showing ads to people on the internet. I really want to thank you for taking time out of your day to speak with me. If people want to learn more about what you're up to, how you do it, potentially consider maybe joining you if they are eligible to work at the Met Office, where can they find you?Jake: Yeah, so you do have to be a resident in the UK, but www.metoffice.gov.uk is our home on the internet. You can find me on Twitter at @jakehendy, and I could absolutely chew Corey's ear off for many more hours about many of the wonderful services that the Met Office provides. But I can tell he's got something more interesting to do. So, uh [crosstalk 00:28:29]—Corey: Oh, you'd be surprised. It's loads of fun to—no, it's always fun to talk to people who are just in different areas that I don't get to work with very often. It turns out that most of my customers are not focused on telling you what the weather is going to do. And that's fine; it takes all kinds. It's just neat to have this conversation with a different area of the industry. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time. I appreciate it.Jake: Thank you very much for inviting me on. I guess if we get some good feedback, I'll have to come on and I will have to chew your ear off after all.Corey: Don't offer if you're not serious.Jake: Oh, I am.Corey: Jake Hendy, Tech Lead at the Met Office. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with a comment yelling at one or both of us for having the temerity to rain on your parade.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

In this episode we speak with Zdravko Dimitrov, CEO of Sfera Technologies.Sfera is a Bulgarian NewSpace company that develops technologies to integrate satellite data systems. In the podcast we discuss: Uses of blockchain in the space industry, particularly in the ground segment The existing bottlenecks in ground station services The changes to practices, hardware, and software that blockchain technology would require How operators may be encouraged to introduce blockchain into existing systems You can find out more about Sfera Technologies here on their satsearch supplier hub.And if you would like to learn about the space industry and our work at satsearch building the global marketplace for space, please join our weekly newsletter.[Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/when-we-get-there License code: Y4KZEAESHXDHNYRA]

In this episode we speak with Giovanni Pandolfi of Leaf Space, a Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS) provider headquartered in Italy and with facilities around the world.Leaf Space has a major focus on the Ground station as a Service (GSaaS) business model and has served a range of clients across the industry running both single and multiple missions.In the episode we discuss some of the lessons and insights from this experience, including: The common bottlenecks satellite operators face with ground station access The use of standard framework agreements to provide ground segment services to multiple satellites Meeting regulatory requirements and conditions across multiple missions How Ground station as a Service (GSaaS) framework agreements can streamline procurement and bring satellite operators and ground station managers closer in alignment Predictions on the evolution of the ground segment in years to come To find out more about Leaf Space please click here to view their satsearch supplier hub, and to stay up to date with all of our work, please join the satsearch mailing list to receive our weekly newsletter.[Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/when-we-get-there License code: Y4KZEAESHXDHNYRA]

In this episode we speak with Isolina Pérez Donnelly, Sales Manager at satsearch member Alén Space, about how the data systems used in both the space and the ground segment can be better integrated into a single ecosystem. Alén Space is a Spanish CubeSat integrator and engineering company that provides equipment, manufacturing, consultancy, design services, and operational expertise for small satellite missions and services. In the episode we discuss: The challenges and benefits of integrating sub-systems from different suppliers. How on-board and ground-based data systems can be better integrated for a more successful mission. What aspects of hardware and software can be standardized in the data ecosystem to drive efficiencies. Integrating cloud-based solutions into small satellite missions. To find out more about today's guests please view the Alén Space supplier hub on satsearch, and to stay up to date with all of our work, please join the satsearch mailing list to receive our weekly newsletter.[Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/when-we-get-there License code: Y4KZEAESHXDHNYRA]

In this episode we speak with Giovanni Pandolfi Bortoletto, Chief Strategy Officer at Leaf Space - a European ground station network operator. We discuss: How ground stations and antenna networks support successful missions The role of spaceports, launch providers, and satellite deployment services with respect to the ground segment How an increased focus on satellite cybersecurity and cloud computing solutions is affecting the market RF radio compatibility between different companies, and the future potential of optical communications solutions How the ground segment and NewSpace market may grow and develop over the coming years. For more information on today's guests please head to the Leaf Space supplier hub on the satsearch platform and to stay up to date with all of our work, please join the satsearch mailing list to receive our weekly newsletter.[Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/when-we-get-there License code: Y4KZEAESHXDHNYRA]

Phil Carrai, president of the Space, Training and Cybersecurity division at Kratos, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how a surge in satellite launches has spurred innovation in the ground systems that get data from them.

Novos serviços de Cloud Computing estão surgindo a todo momento e a Microsoft disponibilizou o Azure Orbital um modelo GSaaS Ground Station as a Service que conecta estações base terrestres a satélites. Assine Papo Cloud Premium e tenha muito mais conteúdo.papo.cloud/assine Transcrição completa do programapapo.cloud/tananuvem180 --------------------------------------------Instagram / Twitter: @papocloudE-mail: contato@papo.cloud--------------------------------------------Ficha técnicaProdução: Vinicius PerrottEdição: Senhor A - editorsenhor-a.com.brSupport the show: https://www.picpay.com/convite?@L7R7XH

Novos serviços de Cloud Computing estão surgindo a todo momento e a Microsoft disponibilizou o Azure Orbital um modelo GSaaS Ground Station as a Service que conecta estações base terrestres a satélites. Assine Papo Cloud Premium e tenha muito mais conteúdo. papo.cloud/assine Transcrição completa do programa papo.cloud/tananuvem180 -------------------------------------------- Instagram / Twitter: @papocloud E-mail: contato@papo.cloud -------------------------------------------- Ficha técnica Produção: Vinicius Perrott Edição: Senhor A - editorsenhor-a.com.br See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Viasat Podcast, host Alex Miller talks to John Williams, Vice President of Real-Time Earth (RTE) at the company. Following the news that RTE (LINK) is now a ground station ecosystem partner in the new Microsoft Azure Orbital service offering, Williams addresses what that means for the companies and their customers and what lies ahead for RTE. Other topics covered in this podcast include: An overview of the RTE network, how it works and plans for growth; Williams’s outlook on Ground-Station-as-a-Service (GSaaS) as a business in the coming years; How RTE enables more timely data downloads for earth observation and remote-sensing satellites; Some of the excitement and challenges surrounding the construction of the RTE site in Alice Springs, Australia; and Upcoming sites in the works for Northern Europe, Africa and beyond.

On this Constellations podcast, the focus will be on Microsoft’s recent announcement of their Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) offering “Azure Orbital” and what it means for the satellite industry. Azure Orbital is Microsoft’s managed service that is designed to deal with the growing flood of data for Earth Observation and Internet of Things applications. The managed service lets users communicate to, control their satellite, process data and scale operations directly in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft’s GSaaS takes a very different approach compared to traditional ground systems. Azure Orbital leverages key technologies such as virtualization, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and cloud computing to enable customers to automate and scale operations across the globe. On this podcast Nora Zhan, Product Manager for Microsoft discusses Azure Orbital. She is involved in Azure Space, Satellites and Ground Stations and in bringing this new platform to market to provide satellite connectivity.

Four Throw-Back Thursday, we bring you the last of Dr. James Potter's recollections from his diary. We tell you about a woman from Sheshatshiu who is looking to reconnect with her culture by delivering her baby in a tent. Have you seen the towering shipping containers in the Goose Bay College of the North Atlantic parking lot?? We know why they’re there, and the answer is out of this world. We get a lesson in preserving vegetables from George Andrews for this episode of Gardening with Gaudi. It looks like after school judo is a no-go. We hear from a sensei and a student in the Labrador Straits.

Angolan ground station operator, and now Project Manager intern at Airbus, Eldrige de Melo is on the Cold Star Project. With host Jason Kanigan we discuss how space ground stations operate. Eldrige answers: what do we mean by the term “ground stations”? Is this all about communications, or does it include passive operations like image gathering? how do ground stations operate? What kind of systems are typically used & what data is gathered? How are humans involved (when is a human decision necessary)? what does a typical “problem day” look like at the Angolan Space Program Management Office? what do you think the impact of autonomous satellites will be on ground operators? is there a technology or problem solving system that you believe would strongly improve ground station operations? how closely do you pay attention to frequency allocations and the activities of organizations like the International Telecommunication Union and WRC conferences? what kind of training do you need to become a ground station operations specialist? Get new episodes directly in your inbox: https://www.coldstartech.com/msb Talk to Cold Star: https://www.coldstartech.com/bookcall

Hello Podatatoes! Episode kali ini kita ditemani oleh Ibnu Rusydi, seorang Satelite Engineer yang berkarya di Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN). PSN adalah operator satelit swasta yang ada di Indonesia. Di episode ini, Bang Ibnu cerita banyak soal pengalamannya menjadi Satelite Engineer di Indonesia. Di usianya yang masih muda, beliau sudah memiliki cukup banyak pengalaman yang mungkin akan menarik bagi banyak orang. Mulai dari pengalaman merancang, membangun hingga mengendalikan sebuah satelit dari Ground Station di Bumi. Bang Ibnu juga menjadi salah satu engineer yang berperan penting di dalam peluncuran  Satelit Nusantara Satu di Februari 2019 yang lalu. Dimana  peluncuran Satelit Nusantara Satu bekerja sama dengan SPACEX. Kesuksesan Nusantara Satu menjadi tonggak sejarah bagi PSN dan Indonesia secara umum. Sehingga, pada April 2020 yang lalu PSN meluncurkan Satelit Nusantara Dua. Namun sayang, peluncuran yang kedua ini tidak semulus yang diharapkan. Terjadi kegagalan dan satelit harus diledakkan sebelum sampai ke orbitnya. Mau tahu cerita lengkapnya yang lebih seru?! Yuk dengerin sampe tuntas.  Hanya di Podtatoes!

Learn about the unique opportunities and challenges in the ground station-as-a-service business model. Find out about the drivers behind the growth in this segment, such as the greater demand for data. Discover the difference between traditional ground system operations and new business models which make space more accessible and affordable. In this episode, you will also hear about the growing interest that venture capitalist have in small satellites and the valuable data they produce.  Listen to Brad Brode, CTO/CIO and Founder of Atlas Space Operations describe how his company is changing the landscape of the traditional ground station. Learn how the Atlas’ ground station-as a service manages risk and security in the cloud and how they stream the data through patent pending software-as-a-service solution. He also talks about the need for quicker access to data in the Earth Observation (EO) market and how they solve the problem of latency by integrating as many third party antennas as possible.

Learn to build and operate your own SatNOGS ground station. The Sunday Seminar is somewhat like the "anchor" topic of the entire weekend of the TAPR Digital Communications Conference. In 2019 we had the privilege of hearing from Corey, KB9JHU and Dan AD0CQ from the SatNOGS Team and they are going to give us, in detail, instructions for setting up a home satellite station.

Learn to build and operate your own SatNOGS ground station. The Sunday Seminar is somewhat like the "anchor" topic of the entire weekend of the TAPR Digital Communications Conference. In 2019 we had the privilege of hearing from Corey, KB9JHU and Dan AD0CQ from the SatNOGS Team and they are going to give us, in detail, instructions for setting up a home satellite station.

Mark “Smitty” Smith KR6ZY returns to debrief us on Amateur Radio at DEFCON 27.  He also unveils the winner of his project pole, the QRP Service Monitor and deep dives on his design vision for the project.   PERMALINK - https://www.HamRadioWorkbench.com/podcast/QRP-Service-Monitor-Design Our Website - http://www.hamradioworkbench.com/ Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/hamworkbench Contact us for feedback and ideas - http://hamradioworkbench.com/contact Connect with us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/hamradioworkbench/ BrandMeister Talkgroup 31075 - https://hose.brandmeister.network/group/31075/ Save $100 on the Digilent Analog Discovery 2 Package by using code “HamRadioWorkbench2019” in your cart prior to checkout - https://store.digilentinc.com/ham-radio-workbench-bundle/ Cale K4CDN’s  Fundraiser - https://www.gofundme.com/help-the-nelson-family-as-carla-beats-cancer Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland - https://disneyland.disney.go.com/destinations/disneyland/star-wars-galaxys-edge/ Droid Depot - https://disneyland.disney.go.com/shops/disneyland/droid-depot/ Star Wars Rebels - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2930604/ Chopper Droid - https://starwarsfans.fandom.com/wiki/Chopper Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk BayNet Club survey - http://www.bay-net.org/survey.html Raspberry Pi Airplay Streaming Host - https://thepi.io/how-to-set-up-a-raspberry-pi-airplay-receiver/ https://www.hackster.io/opcode/apple-airplay-on-raspberry-pi-in-7-easy-steps-c7ff40 https://9to5toys.com/2019/01/03/raspberry-pi-airplay-receiver-setup/ Shairport-sync - https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync DIY Synth Guy Introduction to Op Amp Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQlSs3PObyY Teensy 4.0 - https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy40.html HiFiBerry Raspberry Pi DACs and Amps - https://www.hifiberry.com/ Pimoroni pHATDAC for Raspberry Pi - https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/phat-dac DEFCON - https://www.defcon.org/ What is DefCon? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctQOmjQyYg Open Research Institute, Phase 4 Ground Station - https://openresearch.institute/2019/05/11/phase-4-ground-video-report-10-may-2019/ Smitty talking about microcontrollers at DefCon 21 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiMdhnXuG58 Oral History of the movie Hackers - https://www.slashfilm.com/hackers-oral-history/ BadgeLife Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2fHKRONc6U Smitty’s Design notes on the QRP Service Monitor - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AvHzDoBxXDUolqx6FsBMn076Gl0RjaEZqFqrANyeqWs/edit#heading=h.4zi320kpso8n

The #AI Eye: AWS (Nasdaq: $AMZN) Makes Ground Station Generally Available, Baidu's (Nasdaq: $BIDU) AI-Powered Smart Speaker Top of Chinese Market and FICO (NYSE: $FICO) Announces FICO World 2019 Conference Focussing on AI

The #AI Eye: AWS (Nasdaq: $AMZN) Makes Ground Station Generally Available, Baidu's (Nasdaq: $BIDU) AI-Powered Smart Speaker Top of Chinese Market and FICO (NYSE: $FICO) Announces FICO World 2019 Conference Focussing on AI

GUEST BIO: Ian Massingham is a Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services and has been working with cloud computing technologies since 2008.  Ian has around 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, covering operations and engineering within hosting, telecommunications and cloud service providers.  Ian has a particular interest in the development of Connected Device and IoT applications. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil’s guest on today’s show is Ian Massingham. Ian has already had a long IT career and is still enjoying getting involved in new fields and pushing the boundaries. He started his career by working for a hosting and internet company that is credited with opening up the UK market. Ian and his team used their telecommunications and coding experience to provide fast and affordable internet services to thousands of UK homeowners. Over the years, Ian has worked as an engineer, developer, manager and leader. Today, he leads Technical and Developer Evangelism for Amazon Web Services. KEY TAKEAWAYS: (0.58) – So Ian, can I ask you to expand on that brief intro and tell us a little bit more about yourself? Ian starts by elaborating on the scale, scope and reach of his AWS role. He is responsible for educating software developers and technical end users of AWS on a global scale. Plus, of course customers who are not yet users of the service. Helping them to see how they can use the platform to improve what they are currently doing and use it for new projects. (1.57) – Does that mean that you have to travel a lot? Ian responds by saying yes. He has to attend a lot of different kinds of events and provide support for team members, right across the globe. Plus, he is a prolific speaker in his own right, which also entails a lot of travel. (2.25) – Phil asks Ian to elaborate on the amount of public speaking work he does. Speaking is a big part of his role as the Director of AWS Evangelism. In fact, his whole team spends a lot of time making presentations. When they recruit new members they look for people who are capable of connecting with software developers across the full range of skill levels. (3.05) – Can you please share a unique career tip with the I.T. career audience? Like many developers he went from being an individual contributor to a manager, then a leader and senior leadership roles. However, unlike most other IT professionals he has periodically taken a step back and worked as an individual contributor again. This slightly unusual approach has really borne fruit. It has helped him to develop all kinds of new skills and deepen his understanding of the latest technologies and how they are deployed. (4.09) – Phil asks if taking this approach refreshes his existing skills as well. Ian says absolutely. When he first joined Amazon Web Services, in 2013, his tech skills were getting rusty. He had just spent several years in a leadership role in which he did not really do any developing. So, when he joined AWS he took the opportunity to spend a bit of time working as an individual contributor, technology evangelist. He really enjoyed reawakening and refreshing his skills, while he got up to speed with cloud computing. It enabled him to familiarize himself with the AWS way of working and their product range. Those three and half years took him into a lot of new areas. (5.18) Phil says that it sounds like Ian enjoys keeping his hand in from a technical perspective. Ian agrees, that is true, which is one of the reasons he enjoys working for AWS so much. Recently, they invested in AI and machine learning services. Just last year, they announced some robotics services. There is also Ground Station - a service for people who want to download data from their satellite infrastructure. So, there is plenty going on within the company that enables Ian to indulge his passion for new technologies.  (6.11) – Can you tell us about your worst career moment? Ian says his worst moment was not a single incident, more of a challenging period in his career. Back in the 90s, he worked for a small hosting and internet access startup. They provided hosting, mainly for businesses like Channel 4 and the Dixon stores group. At the time, most companies did not have a website, so this was actually quite exciting work. In 1998, the Dixons group asked them to set up and run their new Freeserve internet service. It was an innovative service that grew at a phenomenal rate. At the time, everyone was still using dial-up. There was no cloud computing either. So, every time a customer signed up they needed server space and the company was constantly running more telecommunications links to the building. Unsurprisingly, Ian and everyone else at the company ended up working ridiculous hours. It was an exciting time that opened up all kinds of opportunities for Ian, but it was also very stressful. (9.14) Was there anything in particular that you learned from that experience? One of the things Ian learned from the experience was how to recruit. The phenomenal rate at which the company grew meant that Ian was constantly recruiting new staff. It was a relatively new business which still had a startup mentality, so everything was very fluid. Recruiting the right people at a fast enough rate was a challenge, especially because the roles were so blurred. There was a lot going on, which meant people just had to muck in to get everything done. In that situation getting the onboarding right proved critical. New staff needed to have the right support. Without it they could not settle in quickly and become viable members of the team. It was also important from a retention point of view. Even today, when it comes to recruitment, Ian’s focus is on getting the onboarding process right. He knows from experience with the right support new people quickly ramp up to full capacity and are far less likely to leave after just a few months. Making sure that people feel like they have got the right kind of support around them is really important in leadership. (10.44) – Phil asks Ian what his best career moment was. Again, for Ian it was not a single moment, more a period in his career that he has found to be fulfilling. Right now, he is particularly enjoying the rate at which AWS is innovating and introducing new services. For example, in 2017, they introduced 1400 new services and features. This astonishing rate of change ensures that Ian gets to talk to people about a huge range of services, technologies and innovations. He is also lucky enough to be able to find out, first hand, how people are using these new services and features. All of which he enjoys and loves speaking about. In the past year alone, he has run sessions about the application of AI and machine learning. He also delivered the keynote speech at an O’Rilley AI conference, in London. In April, he gave the closing keynote speech at a major AWS summit that was held in Singapore. At that event, he got to live demo a chatbot. During his presentation, the audience interacted with chatbots using text and Facebook Messenger. The really cool thing about the whole experience was that Ian was the one who had written and deployed the code being used. Naturally, that experience is one that he views as a career highlight. He has also really enjoyed building out the AWS team. Seeing people that he has recruited grow and go on to bigger and better things is something that Ian takes a lot of pleasure from. (13.12) – Can you tell us what excites you about the future of the IT industry and careers? Ian knows that the services AWS provides are going to free up organizations, so that they can focus their cash and time on being truly innovative. There is not going to be a need for the next generation of developers to spend their early career doing repetitive tasks. For example, in the 90s Ian’s team would spend every Monday provisioning infrastructure. Now, that same task can be done with just a few clicks using the AWS console. Freeing up people’s time in this way is going to have a hugely positive impact. It will leave developers free to be more creative and truly innovate. This means that all kinds of problems can be solved using the vast range of technologies that are now available. (15.22) – What drew you to a career in IT? To answer that one Ian has to go right back to when he was a child. Back then, his father ran a training program for teachers. He produced all of the written training materials using a hand-cranked duplicating machine. At the time, photocopiers were too big and expensive for small organizations to own and run. So, when he discovered he could computerize things, he did. Ian witnessed the way this transformed his father’s business. That in turn sparked his interest in IT. At school he got involved in technology in every way he could. So, it was only natural for him to study computer science at university. (17.09) – What is the best career advice you have ever received? Ian says he would not call it advice as such, more encouragement, which he listened to. While he was working for Planet Online, they were taken over by a telecommunications firm. For Ian, this meant a change in direction, a big one. His new boss saw something in him, so set about persuading him to get involved in the process of finding, assessing and acquiring other telecoms firms. In that role he had to deal with the CEOs of some very large companies, something Ian did not think he was equipped to handle. It was his boss who persuaded him that he could and he was right. In that role, Ian grew in confidence and acquired a whole new skill set. (18.27) – If you were to begin your IT career again, right now, what would you do? Ian says that he would focus on software rather than infrastructure. Now that infrastructure is an area of diminishing impact. Today, it is all about software. He would seek to learn a range of languages and become a true software engineer rather than just a developer. Having the ability to jump across different programming languages and a strong understanding of the foundations would be his aim. Ian believes anyone that is new to the industry will succeed if they take this approach. (19.45) – What career objectives are you currently focusing on? Ian main task, right now, is growing his team. In fact, that is one of the reasons he wanted to join Phil for his podcast. Currently, he is recruiting for all kinds of roles, positions he is very keen to fill. He is currently hiring managers and specialist evangelists for various domains. So, his immediate goal is to fill those positions, which are available in AWS offices across the world. Ian will also be focusing on a couple of other AWS projects that are yet to be announced. He will also be hiring for those, a bit later in the year (20.36) – What is the number one non-technical skill that has helped you the most in your IT career? Ian says for him the ability to communicate has proved invaluable. Being able to listen properly and understand what the customer wants and distil it down to its essential has really helped him in his career. Ian points out that you also need to be an effective outbound communicator. It is very important to maintain high standards of public communication and to be able to adapt your message to suit your audience. (21.51) – Phil asks Ian to share a final piece of career advice with the audience. “Don’t be afraid to try out new things.” Apply for new roles even if you do not have all of the qualifications and experience asked for. Ian says that when AWS recruits, the specification they come up with is more of a wish list than anything else. They really don’t expect to find many candidates that tick all of the boxes. That is the case for most organizations. So, it is always worth just applying for roles that you think might be just a little bit beyond you. BEST MOMENTS: (4.48) IAN – "It was a great opportunity to come back to software development, and rediscover some of the more technical aspects” ( 10.32) PHIL – "I think the onboarding process and just embedding people into a team, making them feel part of what's happening, is vital." (11.09) IAN – “In 2017, we released over 1400 new services and features. That's a huge beat rate of new innovation. " (12.48) IAN – “It’s really awesome to see the talent that you've bought into the organization progressing through the senior IT levels." (15.03) IAN – “As software continues to evolve, the services will get more and more sophisticated," (21.45) IAN – “Those are really important skills in my view, communications inbound and outbound.” CONTACT IAN: Twitter: https://twitter.com/IanMmmm @IanMmmm LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imassingham

This weeks podcast consists of three short interviews recorded at the Canadian Space Summit in Ottawa on November 28 and 29. Segment 1 (03:47) - In the first segment I spoke with Ryan Anderson, a co-founder of the Satellite Canada Innovation Network, known as SatCan. It was just over a year ago that I last spoke with Ryan in episode 22 about the new SatCan project. Since then, the organization tried unsuccessfully to be a part of the governments Supercluster program. However, the concept has is not dead and the founders diligently worked towards their goals and just prior to this weeks summit did announce that they had received some funding from the government. Ryan provides an update on what’s happening at SatCan. Segment 2 (18:42) - In the second segment I spoke with Professor Gordon Osinski from Western University’s Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration about a new national educational and public outreach initiative called Space Matters. Segment 3 (29:36) - In the last I ask SkyWatch co-founder and CEO James Slifierz on his initial thoughts of the news that Amazon had just announced a new service called Ground Station that could disrupt the current ground station model. Surprising many, the ground station offering, through Amazon’s Web Services, has Lockheed Martin as a partner. Currently available in preview mode for selected clients, the service has two ground stations managed by Lockheed Martin with an additional 10 to be added. Initial customers include Maxar’s DigitalGlobe, Spire, BlackSky, Capella Space, Open Cosmos and HawkEye 360. Ironically Jeff Bezos the founder of Amazon stands to benefit in a way many might not have thought of. Each year, according to Bezos, he sells some of his shares in Amazon to fund one of his other ventures, Blue Origin. It’s been reported he’s sold over a billion dollars of shares at various times. Now, thanks to this new AWS Ground Station offering, and in a roundabout way, those customers, using that service, will in part, it seems be helping Bezos fund the development of Blue Origin. Listen in.

Simon & Jeff are joined by a live audience for the first time! Listen to some great updates and fun laughs. Shownotes: EFS Infrequent Access: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/coming-soon-amazon-efs-infrequent-access-storage-class/ S3 Intelligent tiering - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/s3-intelligent-tiering/ S3 Batch Operations - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/s3-batch-operations/ AWS DataSync - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-datasync-for-accelerated-online-data-transfer/ AWS Transfer for SFTP - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-transfer-for-sftp-fully-managed-sftp-for-s3/ Firecracker - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/ AWS Transit Gateway - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-transit-gateway/ AWS Global Accelerator - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-aws-global-accelerator/ EBS Performance Update - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-elastic-block-store-announces-double-the-performance-of-provisioned-iops-volumes/ Amazon EC2 A1 Instances - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-ec2-a1-instances/ Amazon EC2 C5n Instances - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-ec2-c5n-instances/ Amazon DyanmoDB support for Transactions - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/announcing-amazon-dynamodb-support-for-transactions/ AWS GroundStation - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ground-station-ingest-and-process-data-from-orbiting-satellites/?sc_channel=sm&sc_publisher=TWITTER&sc_country=Global&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=awareness&trk=AWS_reInvent_2018_launch_Ground_Station_TWITTER&sc_content=AWS_reInvent_2018_launch_Ground_Station&linkId=60243499

A geostationary amateur satellite has been a dream for US Hams for years.  The AMSAT Phase 4B program aims to deliver on this dream.  Michelle Thompson W5NYV joins us to discuss the AMSAT Phase 4B program and her role in leading the Ground Station team. Starting in February 2018, you will no longer get Ham Radio Workbench in the Ham Radio 360 podcast feed.  Please find us in your favorite podcast app and subscribe to Ham Radio Workbench. iTunes Google Play Music Stitcher Android Options Our RSS Feed for any other Podcast app - http://hamradioworkbench.com/rss The Workbench Podcast is now the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast! We have a new website - http://www.hamradioworkbench.com/ We have a new Twitter account - Please follow us! - https://twitter.com/hamworkbench Contact us at workbench at our new domain or by using our new contact form - http://hamradioworkbench.com/contact Welcome PowerFilm Solar as our newest sponsor for 2018!  http://www.powerfilmsolar.com/ Thanks for the motherboard Brian W4WWW  -  https://twitter.com/w4www_brian Hakko FX-951 Soldering Iron - https://www.amazon.com/AMERICAN-HAKKO-PRODUCTS-INC-FX-951/dp/B0012B8NW8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1514774983&sr=8-3&keywords=hakko+951 Radio Mala - https://www.facebook.com/hamradio.mala/ HamRadio360 Radio Mala Interview - http://hamradio360.com/index.php/2015/06/02/27/ Hakko - FR300 Desoldering Iron - https://www.amazon.com/Hakko-FR300-05-P-Desoldering-Tool/dp/B00KWM69C4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514775347&sr=8-1&keywords=hakko+300 All-Spec Electronics Supply - https://www.all-spec.com/ RF Explorer Low Cost Spectrum Analyzer - http://rfexplorer.com/ Service Monitor - Agilent 6380 - https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2053587.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xagilent+6380.TRS0&_nkw=agilent+6380&_sacat=0 uBITX 80-10 QRP Transceiver Kit - http://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx/ AMSAT - https://www.amsat.org/ Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Geostationary Satellite Program - https://www.hume.vt.edu/geo/info IEEE ComSoc https://www.comsoc.org/about Phase 4 Ground - https://phase4ground.github.io/

OUR BODIES CHANGE A LOT WHEN WE GET TO SPACE, AND THE BRAIN IS NO EXCEPTION.

The Discussion: Enjoying dark skies at the National Trust, Paul’s astronomy outreach endeavours with Sirius Astronomy and predictions for the upcoming AstroCamp. The Tour: In this special episode, Ralph and Paul bring record from the Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey in Guildford. We tour this world leading centre of excellence for low cost satellite design and innovation and explain the sights and work being conducted in the Ground Station and laboratories from where 30 satellites have already been launched and many more are currently in design. The News: In the news we have the latest on the European Space Agency’s ambitious Rosetta spacecraft as it circularises its orbit around Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko; Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to return pristine asteroid samples; watching asteroids colliding 1,000 light years away and yet another reminder of the asteroid lottery we’re playing. The 5 Minute Concept: Recording from the UK centre of satellite design and construction, what else should Paul be talking about this month, but the physics and history of satellites. The Interview: This month the seat is filled by the Surrey Space Centre’s Head of the Planetary Environments Group, Professor Craig Underwood as we discuss satellite innovation, the UK space industry and the future of space exploration. Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month Ralph & Paul answer: I understand Jupiter has no solid mass inside, so how come it’s classed as a planet and stays planet shaped? Mike Joy from Wales via Facebook Can you guys successfully explain the proton-proton chain in under 20 seconds?? Vicky Dews, @Woozydewsy via Twitter