AWS Ground Station Site Capabilities
To simplify your experience, AWS Ground Station determines a common set of capabilities for an antenna type and then deploys multiple antenna to a ground station location. Part of the onboarding steps ensures your satellite is compatible with the antenna types at a specific location. When you reserve a contact, you indirectly determine the antenna type used. This ensures your experience at a particular ground station location remains the same over time regardless of which antennas are being used. The specific performance of your contact will vary due to a wide variety of environmental concerns such as weather at the site.
Currently, all sites support the following capabilities:
Note
Each row in the following table indicates an independent communication path, unless otherwise indicated. Duplicate rows exist to reflect our multi-channel capabilities that allow multiple communication paths to be used concurrently.
Capability Type | Frequency Range | Bandwidth Range | Polarization | Common Name | Notes |
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antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
50 - 400 MHz |
RHCP |
X-band wideband downlink |
Aggregate Bandwidth must be less than 400MHz, and utilized frequency ranges must be non-overlapping. Punta Arenas 1 max is 167MHz. Requires GS Agent. |
antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
50 - 400 MHz |
RHCP |
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antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
50 - 400 MHz |
RHCP |
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antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
50 - 400 MHz |
RHCP |
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antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
50 - 400 MHz |
RHCP |
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antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
50 - 400 MHz |
LHCP |
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antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
50 - 400 MHz |
LHCP |
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antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
50 - 400 MHz |
LHCP |
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antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
50 - 400 MHz |
LHCP |
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antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
50 - 400 MHz |
LHCP |
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antenna-downlink |
2200 - 2290 MHz |
Up to 40 MHz |
RHCP |
S-band downlink |
Only one polarization can be used at a time |
antenna-downlink |
2200 - 2290 MHz |
Up to 40 MHz |
LHCP |
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antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
Up to 40 MHz |
RHCP |
X-band narrowband downlink |
Only one polarization can be used at a time |
antenna-downlink |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
Up to 40 MHz |
LHCP |
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antenna-uplink |
2025 - 2110 MHz |
Up to 40 MHz |
RHCP |
S-band uplink |
Only one polarization can be used at a time EIRP 20-53 dbW |
antenna-uplink |
2025 - 2110 MHz |
Up to 40 MHz |
LHCP |
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antenna-uplink-echo |
2025 - 2110 MHz |
2 MHz |
RHCP |
Uplink echo |
Matches antenna-uplink restrictions |
antenna-uplink-echo |
2025 - 2110 MHz |
2 MHz |
LHCP |
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antenna-downlink-demod-decode |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
Up to 500 MHz |
RHCP |
X-band wideband demodulated and decoded downlink |
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antenna-downlink-demod-decode |
7750 - 8400 MHz |
Up to 500 MHz |
LHCP |
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tracking |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Support for auto-tracking and program tracking |
* RHCP = right-handed circular polarization, and LHCP = left-handed circular polarization. For more information on polarization, see Circular polarization