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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Ball Aerospace is planning future demonstrations with Microsoft to test the software on orbit in the next year.
Esri’s map layers were developed with imagery from the European Space Agency Sentinel-2 satellite, machine learning workflows by Impact Observatory, and compute resources from Microsoft.
Esri, in partnership with Impact Observatory and Microsoft, released a 2017–2021 global land-use and land-cover map at 10-meter resolution based on Sentinel-2 satellite data.
The Microsoft Quantum team worked with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to begin developing solutions for the Deep Space Network scheduling problem.
When Microsoft began working with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it sometimes took JPL more than two hours to produce a weekly Deep Space Network schedule.
Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for $95.00 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $68.7 billion, inclusive of Activision Blizzard’s net cash.
Mangata Networks received its first seed funding in 2020 from Intellectual Ventures’ Invention Science Fund, which is backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
The KPIT–dSPACE–Microsoft solution offers ready assets and accelerators delivered via global cloud infrastructure to reduce integration development costs.
Under their agreement, Airbus will supply Azure Maps with SPOT, Pléiades, and Pléiades Neo satellite imagery.
Airbus will supply Spot 1.5-meter resolution, Pleiades 50-centimeter resolution, and Pleiades Neo 30-centimeter resolution satellite imagery for inclusion in Azure Maps.
Microsoft unveiled new Azure Space products and announced partnerships with Airbus, Kongsberg Satellite Services, ST Engineering iDirect, Orbital Insight, ESRI, and Blackshark.ai.
Microsoft plans to expand its ground-station partnerships next year to include Viasat and U.S. Electrodynamics Inc.
Microsoft established Azure Orbital, its ground-station-as-a-service, in 2020.
Microsoft announced a partnership with Airbus on 2021-12-09 to bring Airbus high-resolution satellite imagery and elevation data into Azure Maps.
Under an agreement between Airbus and Microsoft, Airbus will supply Azure Maps with SPOT, Pléiades, and Pléiades Neo satellite imagery and WorldDEM4Ortho elevation data.
Airbus will supply elevation data prepared for orthorectification from WorldDEM4Ortho for inclusion in Azure Maps.
Salla Eckhardt is Director of Transformation Services at Microsoft and will present a Monday afternoon keynote titled Defining the Digital Building Lifecycle in the Context of Innovation Disruption and Our ‘New Normal’ at Geo Week on 2022-02-07.
Trimble and Microsoft will deliver the Trimble Construction Cloud, a connected platform powered by Microsoft Azure that is fully enabled for 3D constructible models, in 2022.
Initially, Trimble and Microsoft will focus on building the Trimble Construction Cloud powered by Microsoft Azure.
Trimble intends to leverage Microsoft cloud, Trimble technology, and combined engineering capabilities to help construction businesses use digital data to improve productivity, reduce costs, increase collaboration, and create agility.