In connection with Terry's question, let me mention that there are some ground station resources here in Japan
Infostellar has been described as "airbnb for ground stations", and you can probably work it out from there.
ARTSAT organized what they called "cooperative diversity communication" for cooperative data reconstruction
On the latter: I ported the ARTSAT DESPATCH poetry-generating code (as much as possible) to an older Sprite version and sent Zac the code. Not sure if the code ever made it onto the Sprite 2 for KickSat 2, but if not (I delivered rather close to the vibration test deadling), well, c'est la vie.
I'm overdue to give talks to both Infostellar and ARTSAT. I gather that KickSat 2 won't be deployed from ISS until February, which should give me some extra time to organize things a bit more in Japan. If receiving work can be organized successfully, it could make for a good presentation at the Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) for their annual August gathering
and it might make sense to approach the organization even now, for help. I'm also due to give a talk in mid-December (date TBA) at Mapua University (Manila) physics department, and the more knowledgeable I sound about on the ground station issues, the better.
Unfortunately, my technical involvement on the ground station side has so far been limited to just starting this mailing list, which Zac naturally took over, not long after. And that's because of my lack of knowledge and skills. I hope I can count on list members to help me avoid looking laughably ignorant in my outreach efforts, in Japan and elsewhere.