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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Running on Microsoft Azure provides customers the ability to integrate, manage, and deploy Kespry Perception Analytics at scale across global networks using established tools and frameworks.
Microsoft is working with Kespry on Kespry Perception Analytics as a product built on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
Microsoft unveiled Azure Orbital on 2020-09-22 as a service to move data from satellites directly into the Azure cloud for processing and storage.
Microsoft is expanding Azure Orbital partner support to include KSAT’s network of more than 200 satellite antennas.
The Federal Communications Commission awarded Microsoft an experimental license in early September 2020 to download data from Urthecast’s Deimos-2 Earth observation satellite.
Microsoft announced Azure Orbital at Microsoft Ignite in September 2020 as a service to provide satellite operators with direct access to Azure through owned and partner antennas.
Viasat Real-Time Earth (RTE) is available as a managed services option for Microsoft Azure customers as of 2020-09-22.
Microsoft Azure won the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud services contract last year, a contract worth up to $10,000,000,000.
Steve Nixon is vice president for strategic development at Stratolaunch, a firm backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen that plans to launch rockets from the world’s largest aircraft.
Kratos Defense and Security provides ground systems for satellite operators and works with Amazon and Microsoft to ensure their cloud networks meet U.S. government standards.