SPACE SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS

Shayn Hawthorne

Principal Lead for Space
AWS National Security

Shayn has worked for over 30 years in the space field, first as an Active Duty and Reserve US Air Force astronautical engineer and space operations officer, building and launching research and development satellites for the Intelligence Community (IC) and conducting both space surveillance and counterspace operations. Shayn also served 20 years at the MITRE Corporation as Technical Director at the Missile Defense Agency, IC sensors, and Space Control Operations. Shayn joined Amazon Web Services in 2017, where he founded AWS Ground Station, Amazon’s 1st space service, helped launch AWS’s Aerospace & Satellite Solutions Division, and developed on-orbit space-edge runtimes. Shayn is now AWS’s Principal Advisor for National Security sensors and satellites. In this role, Shayn works with customers and builders across AWS to build new enterprises that utilize AWS services and features to disrupt how space operations are conducted.

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