Groundlink - Ground Station Scheduling Platform from Orbit Data to Invoice

Dashboard, live operations, the schedule timeline, conflicts and pass detail with 5 tabs. Every one of the 381 demo passes opens its own pass page.

Antenna capability, site licence coverage, uplink EIRP limit, customer space licence, orbit data age, maintenance, antenna occupancy with 3 min setup and 2 min teardown, contract, export control declaration and X-band rain risk.

Reserved over Priority over Standard over Opportunistic, then the customer furthest below contracted minutes, then the earliest request. Published and locked passes are never moved automatically.

15 S-band and X-band antennas at 9 sites, 10 customers, 17 satellites, 8 booking requests and 7 conflicts, 4 of them waiting for a decision.

Nine Sites, Nine Spreadsheets

Each site planner saw only their own sheet, so nobody could see the network as one schedule. Two customers were booked on the same antenna at the same minute, and setup and teardown time between passes was nobody's rule.

Licence Limits Locked in PDFs

Transmitting earth stations need an authorisation from the national telecom authority, Nkom in Norway, and some sites need a licence even to receive. Licences list frequencies, directions, power limits and satellites, and a pass for a satellite not yet on a site's licence was nearly scheduled.

Orbit Data That Goes Stale

Orbits arrive as TLE sets from Space-Track or CelesTrak, or as CCSDS OEM ephemerides uploaded by customers. Pasted in by hand, they aged without anyone noticing, and stale orbit data makes antenna pointing drift during a pass.

Failures Argued After the Fact

When a pass failed, nobody could say quickly whether it was the station, the weather or the satellite, so credits were argued over email. Invoices were rebuilt from antenna logs at month end, and export control and data licence conditions sat outside the delivery process.