{
 "id": "aws-ion-scv004",
 "entry": null,
 "name": "AWS machine learning software on D-Orbit's ION SCV-004",
 "group": "ran",
 "class": "perception",
 "location": "Earth orbit",
 "operator": "D-Orbit (the satellite)",
 "developer": "Amazon Web Services, with D-Orbit and Unibap",
 "host": "ION SCV-004, Elysian Eleonora",
 "catalogue": {
  "number": 50993,
  "name": "ION SCV-004",
  "launched": "2022-01-13",
  "decayed": null,
  "match": "by name: the team's paper names the carrier SCV-004"
 },
 "dates": {
  "launched": "2022-01-13",
  "ran": "during 2022, after first contact on 21 January",
  "reported": "2022-11-29",
  "ended": null
 },
 "hardware": "Unibap SpaceCloud iX5",
 "software": "AWS edge computing and machine learning software; the models are not named in what was read",
 "did": "Ran inference on Earth observation data in orbit, and had its model settings changed in flight.",
 "marks": [
  {
   "stage": "L",
   "evidence": 3,
   "basis": [
    "c5"
   ]
  },
  {
   "stage": "R",
   "evidence": 2,
   "basis": [
    "c1",
    "c3"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "c1",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "successfully ran a suite of AWS compute and machine learning (ML) software on an orbiting satellite, in a first-of-its-kind space experiment",
   "speaker": "Amazon Web Services",
   "relation": "developer",
   "source": "aws-orbit-ml",
   "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/aws-successfully-runs-aws-compute-machine-learning-services-orbiting-satellite-first-space-experiment/",
   "source_title": "AWS successfully runs AWS compute and machine learning services on an orbiting satellite in a first-of-its kind space experiment",
   "publisher": "Amazon Web Services",
   "source_kind": "blog",
   "published": "2022-11-29",
   "published_basis": "date given in search results",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in part: about six sentences of 7,900 characters"
  },
  {
   "id": "c2",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "On January 21, 2022, the team made its first successful contact with the payload, and executed the first remote command from Earth to space.",
   "speaker": "Amazon Web Services",
   "relation": "developer",
   "source": "aws-orbit-ml",
   "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/aws-successfully-runs-aws-compute-machine-learning-services-orbiting-satellite-first-space-experiment/",
   "source_title": "AWS successfully runs AWS compute and machine learning services on an orbiting satellite in a first-of-its kind space experiment",
   "publisher": "Amazon Web Services",
   "source_kind": "blog",
   "published": "2022-11-29",
   "published_basis": "date given in search results",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "direct",
   "read": "in part: about six sentences of 7,900 characters"
  },
  {
   "id": "c3",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "We successfully achieved the two primary goals of our experiment: perform inference and processing on data while in orbit using AWS edge capabilities, and change model configurations in flight using AWS edge service APIs.",
   "speaker": "O'Donnell et al., the experiment's team",
   "relation": "experimenter",
   "source": "smallsat-aws-cloud",
   "url": "https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5659&context=smallsat",
   "source_title": "Extension of Cloud Computing to Small Satellites",
   "publisher": "Small Satellite Conference 2023 (O'Donnell and five co-authors at Amazon Web Services, the experiment's team)",
   "source_kind": "paper",
   "published": "2023",
   "published_basis": "the paper's number, SSC23-XIII-04",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "wayback",
   "read": "in part: about ten sentences of 22,800 characters, from an Internet Archive copy"
  },
  {
   "id": "c4",
   "kind": "quote",
   "text": "the D-Orbit ION Satellite Carrier SCV-004, Elysian Elenora",
   "speaker": "O'Donnell et al., the experiment's team",
   "relation": "experimenter",
   "source": "smallsat-aws-cloud",
   "url": "https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5659&context=smallsat",
   "source_title": "Extension of Cloud Computing to Small Satellites",
   "publisher": "Small Satellite Conference 2023 (O'Donnell and five co-authors at Amazon Web Services, the experiment's team)",
   "source_kind": "paper",
   "published": "2023",
   "published_basis": "the paper's number, SSC23-XIII-04",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "wayback",
   "read": "in part: about ten sentences of 22,800 characters, from an Internet Archive copy"
  },
  {
   "id": "c5",
   "kind": "data",
   "fields": {
    "OBJECT_NAME": "ION SCV-004",
    "LAUNCH_DATE": "2022-01-13"
   },
   "speaker": "CelesTrak satellite catalogue",
   "relation": "catalogue",
   "source": "celestrak-50993",
   "url": "https://celestrak.org/satcat/records.php?CATNR=50993&FORMAT=json",
   "source_title": "Satellite catalogue record 50993 (ION SCV-004)",
   "publisher": "CelesTrak",
   "source_kind": "catalogue",
   "published": "undated",
   "published_basis": "a live catalogue record; dated by when it was read",
   "accessed": "2026-10-04",
   "copy_route": "json",
   "read": "in full"
  }
 ],
 "conflicts": [],
 "notes": "The claim to a first is scoped to the company's own software. What the models detected, and how well, is not in the parts read.",
 "changed": "Added on 4 October 2026, in the second round of reading.",
 "headline": "L3 R2"
}