Ground Stations
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes
4 statements about Ground Stations, every show
Boyle: Low Earth Orbit Faces a Critical Ground Station Shortage
“We do not have enough ground stations to get data back to Earth as quickly as we need to. And given that low Earth orbit has just been, I would say, you know, saturated by payloads in the last several years, particularly because the cost of launch has come dow…”
Mendler: Northwood Space aims to build 500 ground station sites near-term
“So our kind of you know, sub near term goal is 500 sites.”
Mendler: Individually booking ground antennas cannot scale with the space industry
“As the space industry has been scaling it's not really a sustainable model to think of, like, as you're needing to coordinate, you know, tens or hundreds of different sites to think about that individual booking and coordination”