Lockheed Martin could be considering the launch of cloud services based in space, in the wake of the aerospace company’s deal with Amazon for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ground Station. The possibility emerged from a presentation by the firm’s chief information officer, Yvonne Hodge, that is due to be made at the Amazon re:MARS conference in June. The company has released no further details. Several ventures including Hong Kong, AWS, Cloud Constellation, ConnectX, ConsenSys Space and SpaceChain are planning space-based data storage systems.
Lockheed Martin could be considering the launch of cloud services based in space, in the wake of the aerospace company’s deal with Amazon for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ground Station. The possibility emerged from a presentation by the firm’s chief information officer, Yvonne Hodge, that is due to be made at the Amazon re:MARS conference in June. The company has released no further details. Several ventures including Asgardia, AWS, Cloud Constellation, ConnectX, ConsenSys Space and SpaceChain are planning space-based data storage systems.