Amazon Web Services Case Studies NASA/JPL's Mars Curiosity Mission

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	NASA/JPL's Mars Curiosity Mission Amazon Web Services

NASA/JPL's Mars Curiosity Mission

Amazon Web Services

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Aerospace
Challenge	NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory wanted to share the launching of Curiosity with fans by providing up-to-the-minute details of the mission. Supporting hundreds of thousands of concurrent visitors to the website would have been very difficult since NASA did not have significant web and live video streaming infrastructure. Read More
About Customer	NASA is the agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research, with more than 17,000 employees. Read More
Customer Name	NASA Read More
Solution	NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used AWS to stream the images and video associated with Curiosity’s landing. Cloud computing enabled NASA to provision capacity rapidly and leverage the AWS cloud to deliver successfully engaging experiences of Mars to the public. Novel use of Amazon Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancers enabled NASA to balance the load across AWS regions and ensure the availability of its content under all circumstances imaginable. Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Connectivity Status, Images Captured, Video Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Aerospace

Challenge

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory wanted to share the launching of Curiosity with fans by providing up-to-the-minute details of the mission. Supporting hundreds of thousands of concurrent visitors to the website would have been very difficult since NASA did not have significant web and live video streaming infrastructure.

About Customer

NASA is the agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research, with more than 17,000 employees.

Customer Name

NASA

Solution

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used AWS to stream the images and video associated with Curiosity’s landing. Cloud computing enabled NASA to provision capacity rapidly and leverage the AWS cloud to deliver successfully engaging experiences of Mars to the public. Novel use of Amazon Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancers enabled NASA to balance the load across AWS regions and ensure the availability of its content under all circumstances imaginable.

Data Collected

Connectivity Status, Images Captured, Video

Impact #1	[Cost Reduction - IT] Operating the mars.jpl.nasa.gov website on Amazon Web Services avoided the need to build and manage infrastructure internally.
Impact #2	[Efficiency Improvement - Operation] Cloud solutions enables load balancing across regions to ensure near real-time accessibility.

Impact #1

[Cost Reduction - IT]
Operating the mars.jpl.nasa.gov website on Amazon Web Services avoided the need to build and manage infrastructure internally.

Impact #2

[Efficiency Improvement - Operation]
Cloud solutions enables load balancing across regions to ensure near real-time accessibility.

Benefit #1	AWS cloud solutions allowed NASA to construct a robust, scalable web infrastructure in less than 3 weeks instead of months.

Benefit #1

AWS cloud solutions allowed NASA to construct a robust, scalable web infrastructure in less than 3 weeks instead of months.

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NASA/JPL's Mars Curiosity Mission

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