Session
Weekend Session 5: Coordinating Successful Educational Programs
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract
The Global Satellite Tracking Initiative aims to facilitate students and young professionals setting up ground stations to download real-time data and images from satellites flying above their regions. The objective is to empower and build capacities among space enthusiasts around the world and to promote the space sector through hands-on activities and real space technologies related to satellite communications.
The Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) is an NGO that consists of a global network for students and young professionals interested in the space industry, with more than 15000 members globally from more than 150 countries. SGAC supports the United Nations Programme on Space Applications, with the vision of employing the creativity and vigor of youth in advancing humanity through the peaceful uses of space. SGAC organizes events worldwide, on a local, regional and international level, as well as several space-related projects within specific working groups.
SatNOGS is an integral part of the Libre Space Foundation, supporting the development of a global open source network of satellite ground stations. The projects supported are led by enthusiasts around the world operating ground stations, which can be openly accessed via an online portal.
Through the Global Satellite Tracking Initiative, SGAC and its partners will be providing all the resources, hardware, and know-how that is needed to set up several ground stations. A competition has been launched to select teams and individual space enthusiasts that will then be supplied with a kit and step-by-step instructions on how to build their own ground stations around the world..
Global Satellite Tracking Initiative: Setting Up Ground Stations to Track Satellites around the World
Utah State University, Logan, UT
The Global Satellite Tracking Initiative aims to facilitate students and young professionals setting up ground stations to download real-time data and images from satellites flying above their regions. The objective is to empower and build capacities among space enthusiasts around the world and to promote the space sector through hands-on activities and real space technologies related to satellite communications.
The Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) is an NGO that consists of a global network for students and young professionals interested in the space industry, with more than 15000 members globally from more than 150 countries. SGAC supports the United Nations Programme on Space Applications, with the vision of employing the creativity and vigor of youth in advancing humanity through the peaceful uses of space. SGAC organizes events worldwide, on a local, regional and international level, as well as several space-related projects within specific working groups.
SatNOGS is an integral part of the Libre Space Foundation, supporting the development of a global open source network of satellite ground stations. The projects supported are led by enthusiasts around the world operating ground stations, which can be openly accessed via an online portal.
Through the Global Satellite Tracking Initiative, SGAC and its partners will be providing all the resources, hardware, and know-how that is needed to set up several ground stations. A competition has been launched to select teams and individual space enthusiasts that will then be supplied with a kit and step-by-step instructions on how to build their own ground stations around the world..
