Add a module, not a rack unit.

Today a station is built antenna by antenna. Each dish or Yagi feeds its own rack of modems and receivers, the most expensive equipment in the station, and every unit carries its own paid licences. Operators set the equipment up for each pass by hand.

It doesn't have to be like this.

With TytoSpace each antenna needs only a software-defined radio and a small edge node. One GPU server processes every antenna, passes are planned and run automatically, and a new mission is a software module, not a licence upgrade.

TytoSpace also does what those boxes do not: it keeps the raw recording of every pass, recovers frames offline and identifies unknown signals.

Public procurement records: two Cortex CRT-Quantum units for €214,001 (DLR, 2021, TED 412189-2021); Safran Cortex HDR receivers $244,944 to $398,000 (NASA, 2018 to 2023, USAspending). Ettus list prices. Hardware purchase only: the TT&C modems also transmit and range, which TytoSpace does not, and the TytoSpace software licence is not included. The X-band figure is for a 15 Msym/s QPSK link like NOAA-20, which TytoSpace decodes; faster links use a wider SDR such as a USRP X410 ($33,020 list).

Every pass is planned before it rises.

TytoSpace Plan computes every pass over every antenna from current orbital elements, gives each one a quality score and books the antenna, the band and the processing in one step. Two bookings can never hold the same antenna, and the plan is sent to each edge node as a signed bundle, so a station keeps working offline.

When something changes, the plan is rebuilt and pushed to the edge. For larger networks, learned models predict which contacts will actually deliver data from orbit geometry, weather and space weather, and an optimizer turns the predictions into a schedule for every antenna, around the clock; this planner is delivered per project.

Build the chain you need.

Every stage of the receive chain is a module, and each one runs on the cheapest hardware that can do it. Ready-made modules cover 642 satellite profiles, so a mission on the list starts from a ready profile instead of new code. Your own module plugs in at any tier: on the FPGA, on the GPU or on the CPU.