Azure Orbital Ground Station Documentation

Azure Orbital Ground Station is a cloud-based Ground Station as a Service that allows you to streamline your satellite operations by ingesting space data directly into Azure.

About the Azure Orbital Ground Station Service

Overview

• Why use Azure Orbital Ground Station?
• Learn about Microsoft and partner ground stations

Quickstart

Quickstart

• Get started with Azure Orbital Ground Station
• Learn how Azure Orbital Ground Station supports all mission phases

Concepts

Concept

• Contact
• Contact profile
• Spacecraft object

How to use the service

How-To Guide

• Initiate ground station licensing
• Register a spacecraft
• Prepare network to receive and send data
• Configure a contact profile
• Configure the RF chain
• Schedule a spacecraft contact
• Update the spacecraft TLE
• Receive real-time antenna telemetry
• Prepare for launch
• Use Azure Resource Graph to view contacts

Tutorials

Tutorial

• Downlink data from public satellites
• Understand virtual RF through demodulation of Aqua using GNU Radio