[1][full citation needed][2][3] The SatNOGS project was initiated during NASA SpaceApps Challenge in 2014 at Athens Hackerspace.

[6] SatNOGS aims to provide a stack of technologies needed for a distributed network of low Earth orbit satellite ground stations.

[clarification needed][9] SatNOGS Client is the software to run on ground stations, usually on embedded systems, that receives the scheduled observations from the Network, receives the satellite transmission and sends it back to the Network web app.

[citation needed] A November 2019 SatNOGS blog post summarizes total statistics since establishment:[15] The global array of ground stations contribute to an effective network for monitoring orbital satellites.

[16] The European Space Agency utilized the SatNOGS network to gain initial status observations from the OPS-SAT CubeSat after launch in December 2019.