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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Fields of The World (FTW) is a global project developed by Taylor Geospatial, NASA Harvest, Microsoft AI for Good Lab, the Arizona State University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Clark University.
Anthropic is teaming up with Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks on Project Glasswing.
Reid Wiseman had trouble opening his Microsoft Outlook email account during Artemis II, but the issue did not affect Orion's critical systems.
Space42 leads a Map Africa initiative in partnership with ESRI and Microsoft to enable AI and geospatial capabilities across Africa.
Sudha Mahajan is Partner Product Manager, Azure Networking at Microsoft.
Marlink’s integration enables customers to consume Microsoft cloud services as an extension of their private networks with performance and security suitable for business-critical applications.
The agreement between Marlink and Microsoft enables extension of on-premises networks to Microsoft cloud services via dedicated circuits and Marlink’s global Points of Presence.
On February 18, 2026 Marlink will deliver direct, secure global access to cloud services through the Microsoft ExpressRoute program.
Marlink’s integration with Microsoft ExpressRoute allows maritime and enterprise customers to bypass the public internet when accessing Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
Microsoft has been a major investor in OpenAI since 2019 and has invested billions into the firm.
Musk claims that OpenAI and Altman misled him while transforming the lab into a for-profit enterprise linked to Microsoft.
Microsoft became the biggest shareholder of OpenAI after a restructuring in the previous year.
SpaceX experienced a 15% decline in employee ranks following its return-to-office mandate, while Microsoft and Apple saw declines of 5% and 4% respectively.
NASA is partnering with Microsoft to explore cost and performance evaluations of data storage methods on Azure.
NASA has executed legal agreements with private companies like AWS, Google, and Microsoft to advance Earth Science data management.
Space Compass and Microsoft are collaborating on an on-orbit AI technology demonstration.
SLI has focused mainly on ground stations and has purchased 13 ground stations worldwide, including 10 from Microsoft in March.
Microsoft invested $7.3 billion in the UAE since 2023 and plans to invest $7.9 billion more by the end of 2029.
Updated licenses allow Microsoft to ship the equivalent of 60,400 additional A100 chips involving Nvidia's GB300 GPUs.
Microsoft received export licenses to supply GPU chips to the UAE from President Trump's administration.