Many weather satellite programs recognize that current ground operations will require future expansion and scalability to receive, ingest, process, and distribute ever-growing streams of data. This is recognized by NOAA, US Space Force, ESA, and other US and International Government satellite systems. The growing data volume will be coming from current and new sources and in higher numbers, including diverse missions of opportunities from national and international partners, including government as well as commercial sources. All these point to a significant increase in the volume of data to be processed, along with the increase in the complexity of exploitation methods. Such a major future expansion in data volumes requires higher agility, flexibility, resilience, adaptability of Government operated ground processing infrastructure. To achieve all that in a ground infrastructure, major satellite systems need to adopt innovations, new technologies and novel concepts to realize the required future shift in architectural expansion.

This session invites submissions describing innovations and technological advances from industry, New Space, academia, government research centers, and Collaborative Institutes. Papers should describe such innovations and technological advances in Constellation Mission Operation, Command and Control, Next Generation Ground Infrastructure, as well as Data Processing and Dissemination. The authors should describe these innovations as enabling factors for the future ground system architectures. Submissions should describe how these innovations would help in realizing cost-effective and sustainable ground architectures that support expanding future satellites operations. Examples may include new generations of satellite systems, extended automations in operations and Command and Control, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning (AI/ML/DL) capabilities across the value chain, and end to end cloud migration. The papers should conclude with clearly articulated lessons learned and forward-looking thinking.