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Author: Emma Higashikawa
Emma Higashikawa is a solutions architect on the Aerospace and Satellite (A&S) team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Emma helps space industry customers achieve their missions and solve technical challenges by working together to design and implement end-to-end solutions leveraging AWS.
Japan Manned Space Systems uses AWS Snowcone to automate and optimize data delivery from space to Earth
Approximately 400 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS) used an AWS Snowcone SSD onboard the International Space Station (ISS) to quickly and autonomously transmit large volumes of data from space back on the ground into AWS. The AWS Snowcone, which arrived on the ISS in July 2022 as part of the first Axiom Space Mission (Ax-1), is available to power on-orbit data processing experiments for researchers, students, and scientific organizations.