{"id":17417,"date":"2022-02-17T21:53:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/amazon-web-services-partners-with-brazils-space-agency-to-boost-business-on-the-final-frontier\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T21:53:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:53:55","slug":"amazon-web-services-partners-with-brazils-space-agency-to-boost-business-on-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/amazon-web-services-partners-with-brazils-space-agency-to-boost-business-on-the-final-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services partners with Brazil\u2019s space agency to boost business on the final frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alcantara Space Center serves as Brazil\u2019s main launch site. ( ASCOM \/ MCTIC Photo \/ Odjair Baena)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amazon Web Services and the Brazilian Space Agency are joining forces to support long-term growth of the space industry in Latin America\u2019s largest country.<\/p>\n

The statement of strategic intent and cooperation, signed by AWS and the space agency (known in Portuguese as the Ag\u00eancia Espacial Brasileira, or AEB), follows similar agreements that Amazon has made with Greece and Singapore. <\/p>\n

But Brazil is a higher-profile case: Last year, Brazilian space and defense officials announced that Virgin Orbit would conduct orbital launches from the country\u2019s Alc\u00e2ntara Space Center. Brazil is also a participant in the International Space Station program, and it has signed onto NASA\u2019s Artemis Accords for moon exploration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Brazilian government is on the hook to help provide capability for Artemis,\u201d Peter Marquez, AWS\u2019 head of space policy, told GeekWire. \u201cWe would love to help in those traditional areas, but in addition to that, the journey of getting to the moon, as well as building up other capabilities in Brazil, presents the opportunity to further grow the Brazilian space community commercially.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newly signed agreement, which also involves collaboration with Brazil\u2019s U.S. embassy, lays out three initiatives aimed at supporting Brazil\u2019s space activities.<\/p>\n

AWS will offer space industry stakeholders access to data-processing credits, technical training and business support through a program called the Brazil\/AWS Space Collaboration for the Economy and Development, or B\/ASCEnD, Another initiative will create a centralized repository for space data. The third initiative will bring together representatives from AWS and Brazil\u2019s space agency to discuss policy and regulatory strategies in support of Brazil\u2019s space goals.<\/p>\n

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Copies of the newly signed statement of strategic intent and cooperation are shown off by Brazilian space chief Carlos Augusto Texeira de Moura; Nestor Forster Jr., Brazil\u2019s ambassador to the U.S.; and Max Peterson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services. (AWS Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marquez said education is a big part of the partnership: \u201cWe are committed to providing education to students, education to people in industry, education for the government on how you use AWS tools \u2014 in general, the capabilities that cloud compute and storage and AI and ML [machine learning] and all those things provide,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., Nestor Forster Jr., said in a blog posting that the initiatives will bring about \u201cgreater integration of the Brazilian private sector and our aerospace industry with the American innovation ecosystem, the most advanced in the world in the space area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlos Augusto Texeira de Moura, president of the Brazilian Space Agency, called the agreement with AWS \u201can important step towards promoting our space industry, at a time when Brazil aims to enter more strongly in the space market, such as, for example, in the space access segment, with the Alc\u00e2ntara spaceport.\u201d<\/p>\n

As far as AWS is concerned, Marquez essentially said the sky\u2019s the limit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s software and hardware that the government needs,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd as you\u2019ve heard many times before, Amazon as a whole is customer-obsessed. So if the Brazilian government needs support in those areas, whether it be ground station capabilities or support to develop a launch program, those are things that we will talk to them about, and pursue those opportunities. We are at the very beginning phases of this.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alcantara Space Center serves as Brazil\u2019s main launch site. ( ASCOM \/ MCTIC Photo \/ Odjair Baena) Amazon Web Services and the Brazilian Space Agency are joining forces to support long-term growth of the space industry in Latin America\u2019s largest country. The statement of strategic intent and cooperation, signed by AWS and the space agency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4455,4526,1819],"class_list":["post-17417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-aws","tag-brazil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}