Project Quasar: A Community-Driven Approach to Democratize Access to Satellite Ground Stations
Should you decide to launch a nano-satellite today in Low-Earth Orbit, the cost of renting ground station communication infrastructure is likely to significantly exceed your launch costs. While space launch costs have lowered significantly with innovative launch vehicles, private players, and smaller payloads, access to ground infrastructure remains a luxury. We present a community-driven distributed reception paradigm for LEO satellite signals where signals received on many tiny handheld receivers (not necessarily deployed on rooftops but also indoors) are coherently combined to recover the desired signal.