5. ODS Adoption

5.1. Current ODS Community

5.1.1. Radio Astronomy Observatories

The ODS system is currently being adopted, developed, and tested independently by the following non-NRAO radio astronomy facilities. Some have already had the Telescope Boresight Avoidance (TBA) engaged by SpaceX:

  • Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO-ODS) - TBA operational

  • CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility (CSIRO-ODS) - TBA operational

  • MIT Haystack Observatory (Haystack-ODS) - TBA operational

  • Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO-ODS/DSA-2000) - under development

  • Kōkeʻe Park Geophysical Observatory (KPGO) - under development

5.1.2. Satellite Operators

Several satellite operators have signed a coordination agreement with NSF to utilize the ODS API and JSON data to develop avoidance techniques that work best for their system with radio astronomy, including the following companies (satellite constellation name):

Satellite operators

Constellation Name

ODS Adoption Status

SpaceX

Starlink

TBA operational at 10.7-12.7 GHz & DTC for NRAO, HCRO, MIT Haystack, CSIRO

Amazon

Leo (formerly Kuiper)

Under planning

AST SpaceMobile

Bluewalker

Under test (for pushing TLE data)

5.2. Steps to create one’s own ODS system (for radio observatory user)

Although the current ODS JSON format is available for any radio observatory to use without any warranty by NRAO, please contact the NRAO ODS Helpdesk to inform us of your adoption plan as well as review and acknowledge all the disclaimer terms on ODS Data Format. This will help us keep you informed of any future releases and changes to the ODS JSON Schema.

Additionally, you will need to set up and maintain your own ODS API server to report your ODS Mitigations Requests (MRs), as summarized in the Developer Notes.

To have satellite operators utilize your ODS data, you will first need to contact each of the satellite operators individually (if your facility is based outside the US) or coordinate with the satellite operators through NSF (for US-based radio telescopes only). You will then need to grant access to the satellite operators for querying your ODS data with your own preferred authentication mechanisms, such as one in How to interface with the NRAO ODS API.