Applications
A station in-country turns every pass into a national service
Satellites downlink over the country on the same pass. Network OS puts national priorities in the schedule, processes the data and keeps the archive in-country, for ministries, universities and the region.
From pass to service
From the satellite to the ministry, in one country
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Satellites
Free direct broadcast: Terra, Aqua, Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20/21. Radar and AIS under contract. Your own missions.
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Orbital Gate unit
Downlinked over the country, on the same pass.
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Network OS
National priorities in the schedule, processing and an archive in-country.
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Users
Fisheries, agriculture, water, disaster and environment ministries, and universities.
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Region
Neighbouring countries book capacity on the same station.
What the data does
Six national services from one station
Fishing and vessels
Radar and night-light detections matched to AIS. Vessels with their transponders off are flagged for patrol the same day.
Crops and food security
Crop condition by district through the season, a yield forecast before harvest, and subsidy and insurance checks per field.
Drought and water
Early warning from vegetation stress and land temperature, reservoir and river levels, and irrigation allocation.
Disasters[2]
Active-fire detection within a minute of the pass, flood extent through cloud, and cyclone damage the next day. The unit arrives with its own power and stays on air when terrestrial links are down.
Coast and environment
Oil spills and ship discharge from radar, and mapping of mangroves, coral and coastal erosion.
Forests, land and mining
Alerts for deforestation, illegal logging and illegal mining, from the change between passes.
Why in-country
Seconds from the pass, not hours
Data from a station in the country is processed as it arrives. Data processed abroad waits for standard near real-time processing.
Sources
- [1]NASA Earthdata, LANCE: most near real-time products within 3 hours of observation.
- [2]NASA FIRMS, ultra real-time data from direct broadcast: under 60 seconds from observation to fire detection (US and Canada).
- [3]Paolo et al., Nature, 2024 (72–76% of industrial fishing vessels not publicly tracked; Sentinel-1, 2017–21), via ESA.
- [4]FAO: illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, up to 26 million tonnes a year, worth up to US$23 billion.
- [5]USGS, Landsat Ground Network: international cooperator stations receiving Landsat 8 and 9 in Canada, China, Germany, India, Indonesia and South Africa.
Who uses it
Five users, one network
Governments
A national ground station in months, sited and operated in-country, with no greenfield build. Data is received, processed and stored in the country, and the government controls tasking, scheduling and access.
Defence and security
The unit moves by road, rail, sea or air and relocates without a rebuild, so stations can be dispersed with no single fixed target. Command and control is encrypted, access is role-based, and other units on the network take over automatically if one goes down.
Satellite operators
Units go where operators lack coverage: high-latitude sites for polar orbits, new regions, and LEO to GEO from one site. Passes are booked across the network, every minute is metered and settled automatically, and idle time earns for the host.
Universities
Universities buy or lease a unit, or book time on one, for their own satellite missions and for research on the data it receives. Students and staff train as station engineers and data analysts on live passes.
Remote industry
Mining, energy and offshore operations. The unit is built for desert, ice and coast and moves with the operation. A private link carries site telemetry and operations data, and Earth-observation passes monitor the asset.
Capacity built in the region
- Station engineers
- Data analysts
- University missions and research
- National data archive
- Regional data hub
Which services does your country need first?
Tell us the sectors, the satellites and the region. Early-access partners help shape the first units.