AutoSat Documentation
AutoSat is mission operations software for satellite teams. It tracks your spacecraft, runs your passes and lets your customers watch their payload live, all from one web app.
This site shows you how to set it up and run it day to day.
What AutoSat does
- Tracking. Follow each spacecraft on a 3D globe or 2D map, with the next pass always in view.
- Commanding. Send commands from the console and watch telemetry come back. AutoSat logs every pass.
- Telemetry. Turn downlinked messages into named values. Read the latest value or plot it over time.
- Workflows. Automate the work before, during and after a pass. Workflows survive restarts, so routine passes run with nobody on console.
- Ground stations. Connect via AWS Ground Station, your own antennas or the ANT61 Beacon network.
- Portals. Give payload teams and customers their own payload's telemetry and commands, without visibility into the rest of your system.
System architecture
The AutoSat service runs in the cloud. A small agent sits beside each ground station, in your AWS Ground Station EC2 image or on your own hardware, and relays commands and telemetry during each pass. Agents securely connect to the cloud service with mutual TLS certificates.
AutoSat can talk to your spacecraft in two ways – either provide executable scripts or terminal commands for the agent to call on your behalf, or configure protobuf messages, which are used to generate and send UDP messages directly to your spacecraft.
Where to start
- Getting started: create your account, add a spacecraft and schedule your first pass.
- Protocols, commands & UDP: define your message formats and send your first command.
- Telemetry: choose the values to track and chart them.
- Tracking your spacecraft: follow your fleet and plan passes.
This documentation is under construction. If you can't find what you need, email us at hello@autosat.space.