Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a new Aerospace and Satellite Solutions division and wants to know customers’ needs, with teams focusing on launch operations, satellite command and control, and space exploration. AWS Ground Station is part of this department and plans to establish 12 ground systems, with the eight one already installed in Hawaii.

The new department has a long-range strategy, exploring specific areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), and digital engineering/digital twin capability to save time in designing complex systems.

Amazon’s Project Kuiper is not connected to the AWS division.