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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Key customers signed up for O3b mPOWER include Microsoft, Princess Cruises, Marlink, Jio Platforms, Orange, Claro Brasil, and Vodafone Cook Islands.
Microsoft and Viasat formed a partnership to deliver internet access to 10 million people around the globe, including 5 million across Africa.
Half of the 10 million people Microsoft and Viasat are partnering to reach are in Africa.
Microsoft’s Airband initiative aims to deliver connectivity to 250 million people by the end of 2025.
Microsoft and Viasat will first look at projects that could leverage Viasat’s fleet of existing geostationary satellites, including the upcoming ViaSat-3 constellation.
The partnership builds upon the existing relationship between Viasat and Microsoft Azure Space to deliver advances in satellite connectivity.
Microsoft and Viasat will collaborate to provide and pilot technologies including satellites in geostationary orbit and low Earth orbit and fixed wireless.
Microsoft established the Airband initiative in 2017.
Microsoft is partnering with satellite operator Viasat to find solutions for bringing internet access to 10 million unserved or underserved people within three years.
SES, e& (Etisalat), and Microsoft signed a tripartite agreement in the MENA region under which e& will host a co-located SES O3b mPOWER and Microsoft ground station to facilitate connectivity to the cloud.
Microsoft launched a private preview of the Azure Orbital Space Software Development Kit (SDK) on 2022-11-17.
Microsoft established an AI Innovation Council with local partners and nonprofits to work alongside its AI for Good Labs expansion in Africa.
Planet Labs, Microsoft, and The Nature Conservancy launched private previews of the Global Renewables Watch at Energy Day during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27).
LEOcloud’s space-based infrastructure will be designed to host Microsoft, Red Hat, and other cloud services.
The $10,000,000 Ansari XPrize was claimed in 2004 by a team led by aerospace engineer Burt Rutan and backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
The Defense Innovation Unit signed agreements on 2022-11-02 with Amazon Web Services, Kuiper Government Solutions, Microsoft Azure Space, and SpiderOak Mission Systems for a project to demonstrate space-based communications using interconnected commercial and government networks.
The Carrier and Wholesale Services division of e& partnered with Microsoft and SES to host a co-located SES O3b mPOWER and Microsoft ground station at Ras Al Khaimah.
HxGN Connect is hosted in Microsoft Azure.
e& Carrier and Wholesale Services partnered with Microsoft and SES to host a co-located SES O3b mPOWER and Microsoft ground station at Ras Al Khaimah.
Thales Alenia Space is collaborating with Microsoft on remote sensing and on-orbit computing.