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by syedkarim 1639 days ago
I've spoken to someone in business development at AWS Ground Station in the past and have also navigated the ITU filing process for operating a satellite(s). I don't believe AWS does anything to reduce coordination requirements for downlinking from a satellite; I don't see how they could be at all involved with coordination.

AWS does eliminate the capex of setting up your own antennas all over the world. If you just want to downlink from your satellite, radiating into another country's borders is possible as long as that country did not object/request coordination with the satellite/ITU filing.

Some countries require receive-only earth stations (which is any antenna/terminal that receives a signal from a satellite) to be licensed, but many do not. AWS would eliminate that particular set of paperwork, but that's really not that much paperwork compared to ITU regulations.