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.
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.
Microsoft AI for Earth has awarded over 700 projects in 80 countries.
Esri developed the 2020 Global Land Cover Map using a new machine learning workflow in partnership with Esri Silver Partner Impact Observatory and Microsoft.
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.
The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) welcomed Microsoft as its newest member on 2021-06-23.
SpaceX named Microsoft as a subcontractor on a $149,000,000 contract to build missile-detection satellites for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency.
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.
NextBillion.ai received a $6,250,000 investment 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.
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.
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.
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.
O3b satellites operated by SES in medium Earth orbit support Microsoft's Azure Space initiative.
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.
The Microsoft for Startups Programme provides access to Azure and GitHub Enterprise.
DronePrep's new platform has been built using Microsoft technologies.
DronePrep secured sponsorship from the Microsoft for Startups Programme through an introduction by Worcestershire technology accelerator BetaDen.
DronePrep has been accepted onto the 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.