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In 2022 the Defense Innovation Unit selected eight companies to work on the Hybrid Space Architecture: Aalyria, Anduril, Atlas Space Operations, Enveil, SpiderOak Mission Systems, Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, and Microsoft Azure Space.
Developers using Microsoft’s Azure Orbital space edge can deploy software apps to Loft satellites using Loft-specific satellite APIs to access onboard sensors and compute platforms.
Azure Orbital Ground Station provides ground station services as part of Azure Space.
Microsoft launched Azure Space in 2020.
Microsoft plans to develop a new Azure Space Data solution building upon the Microsoft Planetary Computer to provide global insights, resiliency, and real-time connectivity.
The partnership builds upon the existing relationship between Viasat and Microsoft Azure Space to deliver advances in satellite connectivity.
Azure Orbital created an intelligent hosting platform software that runs on spacecraft operated by Ball Aerospace, Loft Orbital, Thales Alenia Space, and Xplore.
The Azure Orbital Space SDK is intended to enable developers to create space-related applications in the cloud and deploy them on spacecraft operated by Azure Orbital partners.
Microsoft launched a private preview of the Azure Orbital Space Software Development Kit (SDK) on 2022-11-17.
Azure Space hosted on LEOcloud’s infrastructure will enable customers to run artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in orbit while collaborating with colleagues on Earth.
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.
Microsoft will begin offering private previews of Azure Orbital Cloud Access starting 2022-09-14.
Microsoft unveiled the Azure Space Partner Community on 2022-07-19 at the Microsoft Inspire 2022 conference in San Francisco.
Xplore Inc. completed a satellite testing initiative using Microsoft Azure Orbital to conduct satellite operations for NOAA’s NOAA-18 satellite.
NOAA obtained data downlinked from the 17-year-old NOAA-18 satellite through an Azure Orbital ground station in Quincy, Washington to the Azure cloud during a proof-of-concept demonstration.
Customers of Azure Orbital can use TerraStream on Azure to build a storefront to scale their Earth observation businesses and accelerate time to market.
Azure Private 0.005 kg combined with Azure Orbital can establish contact between satellite networks and Azure to bring connectivity to remote areas when used with Intelsat services.
Microsoft unveiled new Azure Space products and announced partnerships with Airbus, Kongsberg Satellite Services, ST Engineering iDirect, Orbital Insight, ESRI, and Blackshark.ai.
Microsoft established Azure Orbital, its ground-station-as-a-service, in 2020.
On 2021-08-17, Microsoft agreed to buy managed services from SES for Azure and to support Microsoft’s Azure Orbital ground station solutions business.