From Space to ‘The Cloud’
NASA’s Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich broke new ground as the first NASA mission to archive a climate-monitoring satellite’s data into the “cloud” instead of a ground storage system. With its data in the cloud, Sentinel-6 makes the insights it collects more accessible and available for scientists and soon, the public at-large.
While the data is also more accessible, this approach solves a growing problem for NASA: where to store its ever-expanding data repository.
“NASA is required to keep all data in perpetuity,” said David Appel, vice president of Defense & Civil Solutions at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business. “The data storage challenge becomes that much greater with the petabytes upon petabytes of data that satellites generate every day.”