Azure Space is a Microsoft initiative focused on integrating cloud computing with satellite technology to provide accessible and innovative solutions for the space industry and various other sectors. It functions as a platform offering services like Azure Orbital Ground Station (a ground station as a service), data processing, and analytics, enabling satellite operators to manage their networks and access data efficiently. Key partners include SpaceX, Airbus, Esri, and the U.S. Space Force, with services aimed at supporting government and commercial clients in areas like satellite operations, data centers, and global connectivity.
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Developers using Microsoft’s Azure Orbital space edge can deploy software apps to Loft satellites using Loft-specific satellite APIs to access onboard sensors and compute platforms.
Azure Orbital Ground Station provides ground station services as part of Azure Space.
Microsoft launched Azure Space in 2020.
Microsoft plans to develop a new Azure Space Data solution building upon the Microsoft Planetary Computer to provide global insights, resiliency, and real-time connectivity.
Azure Orbital Ground Station facilitated communication with MuSat-1 using a virtual radio frequency solution that eliminated the need for hardware deployment.
Microsoft is supplying Azure Orbital Ground Station and Azure Government air-gapped clouds for NExT to provide a secure cloud environment for SDA mission work.
Microsoft launched a private preview of the Azure Orbital Space Software Development Kit (SDK) on 2022-11-17.
Azure Orbital created an intelligent hosting platform software that runs on spacecraft operated by Ball Aerospace, Loft Orbital, Thales Alenia Space, and Xplore.
The Azure Orbital Space SDK is intended to enable developers to create space-related applications in the cloud and deploy them on spacecraft operated by Azure Orbital partners.
The Azure Orbital hosting platform is designed to help applications communicate with spacecraft hardware in a secure way and enable developers to test code in space.
Azure Space hosted on LEOcloud’s infrastructure will enable customers to run artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in orbit while collaborating with colleagues on Earth.
Microsoft will begin offering private previews of Azure Orbital Cloud Access starting 2022-09-14.
NOAA obtained data downlinked from the 17-year-old NOAA-18 satellite through an Azure Orbital ground station in Quincy, Washington to the Azure cloud during a proof-of-concept demonstration.
Customers of Azure Orbital can use TerraStream on Azure to build a storefront to scale their Earth observation businesses and accelerate time to market.
Azure Private 0.005 kg combined with Azure Orbital can establish contact between satellite networks and Azure to bring connectivity to remote areas when used with Intelsat services.
Microsoft unveiled new Azure Space products and announced partnerships with Airbus, Kongsberg Satellite Services, ST Engineering iDirect, Orbital Insight, ESRI, and Blackshark.ai.
Microsoft established Azure Orbital, its ground-station-as-a-service, in 2020.
On 2021-08-17, Microsoft agreed to buy managed services from SES for Azure and to support Microsoft’s Azure Orbital ground station solutions business.
Chirag Parikh left the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in early 2020 to join Microsoft as senior director of Azure Space.
Starlink will support Microsoft's space-focused, modular cloud business called Azure Space, which will offer mobile cloud computing data centers deployable anywhere in the world.