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Microsoft, through its Azure Space initiative, acts as a cloud service provider aiming to integrate cloud and satellite technology. Azure Space provides services like Azure Orbital Ground Station, enabling satellite operators to manage data downlink, processing, and storage. They partner with organizations like Thales Alenia Space, ESA, NASA and SpaceX Starlink to connect the Azure cloud to space-based assets and offer solutions for on-orbit computing and data analysis.

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Chirag Parikh left the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in early 2020 to join Microsoft as senior director of Azure Space.

GovernanceGeneralValue 3.0Aug 2, 2021Parikh named executive secretary of National Space Council

The Sunny Lives AI model solution was developed under Microsoft’s global program Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Action to build disaster-resilient communities in India.

GeneralValue 2.0Jul 27, 2021Microsoft’s new AI model to help predict heat wave risk in India

Microsoft AI for Earth has awarded over 700 projects in 80 countries.

FinancialValue 2.0Jul 14, 2021Radiant Earth foundation partners with Microsoft AI for Earth to accelerate sustainability solutions

Esri developed the 2020 Global Land Cover Map using a new machine learning workflow in partnership with Esri Silver Partner Impact Observatory and Microsoft.

RelationshipsCapabilityGeneralValue 3.8Jun 25, 2021Esri releases new 2020 global land cover map

Microsoft is working with many Space ISAC members as part of its geospatial partner ecosystem to build solutions for industry, the U.S. government, and international organizations.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 1.5Jun 24, 2021Microsoft becomes a founding member of Space ISAC

The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) welcomed Microsoft as its newest member on 2021-06-23.

RelationshipsValue 3.2Jun 23, 2021Microsoft joins Space ISAC to support cybersecurity

SpaceX named Microsoft as a subcontractor on a $149,000,000 contract to build missile-detection satellites for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 5.0Jun 23, 2021Moving space into the cloud: Q&A with Microsoft Azure Global’s Tom Keane

Microsoft invests over $1,000,000,000 annually in cybersecurity and maintains a team of more than 3,500 security analysts, researchers, responders, engineers, and data scientists in 77 countries.

FinancialCapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Jun 23, 2021Microsoft joins Space ISAC to support cybersecurity

NextBillion.ai received a $6,250,000 investment from M12, Microsoft’s venture fund.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.5May 21, 2021NextBillion.ai adds $6.25 million to its series A from M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund

Ball Aerospace and Microsoft completed a series of demonstrations showing commercial cloud computing can process and securely deliver actionable information to ground stations, command centers, and battlefield users.

CapabilityGeneralRelationshipsValue 3.5May 20, 2021Microsoft & Ball Aerospace demonstrate cloud potential for government customers

Ball Aerospace and Microsoft completed a series of demonstrations showing the viability of using commercial cloud computing to process and securely deliver actionable information to users in ground stations, command centers, and battlefield environments.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5May 19, 2021The Team Of Ball Aerospace + Microsoft Complete Cloud Demos That Securely Deliver Actionable Intelligence To Warfighters

Telesat joined the Ball-Microsoft team for the final demonstration to complete a direct downlink of data from its LEO satellite network to a Ball-built electronically steerable Ka-band phased array on a tactical vehicle.

GeneralRelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.2May 19, 2021The Team Of Ball Aerospace + Microsoft Complete Cloud Demos That Securely Deliver Actionable Intelligence To Warfighters

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.

RelationshipsCapabilityGeneralValue 4.0May 13, 2021Starlink teams up with Google for ground infrastructure

O3b satellites operated by SES in medium Earth orbit support Microsoft's Azure Space initiative.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 3.2May 13, 2021Starlink teams up with Google for ground infrastructure

One-hop connectivity to Microsoft Azure from SES’s remote O3b mPOWER sites will provide O3b mPOWER customers the ability to optimize business operations with increased flexibility and agility.

CapabilityValue 3.0Apr 28, 2021SES Signs Agreements Across The Globe TO Build Eight, Initial O3b mPOWER Ground Stations

The Microsoft for Startups Programme provides access to Azure and GitHub Enterprise.

CapabilityValue 2.0Apr 27, 2021DronePrep awarded $25K sponsorship from Microsoft for Startups Programme

DronePrep's new platform has been built using Microsoft technologies.

CapabilityGeneralValue 2.0Apr 27, 2021DronePrep awarded $25K sponsorship from Microsoft for Startups Programme

DronePrep secured sponsorship from the Microsoft for Startups Programme through an introduction by Worcestershire technology accelerator BetaDen.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 3.8Apr 27, 2021DronePrep awarded $25K sponsorship from Microsoft for Startups Programme

DronePrep has been accepted onto the Microsoft for Startups Programme.

GeneralValue 1.8Apr 27, 2021DronePrep awarded $25K sponsorship from Microsoft for Startups Programme

Microsoft plans to move Thales Alenia Space’s DeeperVision automated satellite image processing technology into its Azure Orbital platform as of 2021-04-06.

CapabilityRelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Apr 6, 2021Microsoft and Thales work to automate satellite image processing
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