Tag: Azure
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Microsoft Azure enlists generative AI to help Pentagon look for satellite imagery
The Department of Defense envisions linking multiple ground communication systems with diverse satellite networks. (Photo via Defense Innovation Unit) Can a chatbot help Pentagon planners find the satellite data they need to understand what’s happening in a global hotspot? Microsoft Azure Space recently showed the U.S. military how an application beefed up with AI could…
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Microsoft Azure ramps up access to cloud computing via SpaceX’s Starlink satellites
A SpaceX Starlink satellite antenna is connected to Microsoft’s Azure Stack Edge device. (Microsoft Photo) With SpaceX’s help, Microsoft is taking the next step toward merging cloud computing with available-anywhere satellite connectivity. Today Microsoft announced the start of a private preview for Azure Orbital Cloud Access, which lets users link up with the cloud in…
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Microsoft and Xplore team up with NOAA to demonstrate cloud-based satellite operations
An artist’s rendition shows the NOAA-18 satellite in orbit. (NOAA Illustration) What do you do with an aging weather satellite? If you’re the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, you turn to Microsoft Azure and a Seattle-area startup called Xplore to find out if there’s a cheaper way to keep it going. After a yearlong demonstration…
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Microsoft Azure widens its space ecosystem through deals with Airbus and data partners
An Airbus satellite image shows Seattle Center. (Pleiades Neo © Airbus DS 2021 / via Microsoft) One year after Microsoft expanded its Azure cloud domain to the final frontier, the company is taking another giant leap in its campaign to build a digital ecosystem for the space community. Today, Azure Space is lifting the curtain…
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Computing at the edge of space: HPE and Microsoft conduct International Space Station experiments
The International Space Station as seen from a departing Soyuz spacecraft. (NASA Photo) If your cell phone went out 17 times a day, for anywhere from 1 second to 20 minutes, you’d get a new wireless provider. That’s basically what astronauts on the International Space Station are dealing with, but they don’t have that option.…
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Microsoft joins space industry information clearinghouse to boost cybersecurity
A series of pictures documents the construction of an Azure Orbital ground station at Microsoft’s data center in Quincy, Wash. (Microsoft Azure via YouTube) Microsoft is joining the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center as a founding member, with a mission to strengthen cybersecurity for critical space assets. “As the first hyperscale cloud service provider…
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Microsoft and Ball Aerospace enlist the cloud to speed up Space Force’s data flow
An artist’s conception shows Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO satellite in orbit. (Telesat Illustration) How will Pentagon planners cope with the torrents of data that are expected to rain down from a constellation of satellites monitoring hotspots from low Earth orbit? Microsoft and Ball Aerospace say they’ve demonstrated that the cloud can handle it — and…
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Microsoft and HPE team up to connect Azure cloud to International Space Station
The International Space Station will soon get a connection to Microsoft Azure. (NASA Photo) The sky’s not the limit for the cloud: Microsoft is partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to bring Azure cloud computing to the International Space Station. HPE’s Spaceborne Computer-2, which is due for launch to the station as early as Feb. 20…
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Microsoft partners with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service for Azure Space cloud platform
Microsoft is partnering with a wide range of satellite and space companies to build its Azure Space cloud computing service. (Microsoft Illustration) Microsoft says it’s taking the next giant leap in cloud computing, in partnership with SpaceX and its Starlink broadband satellite constellation. “By partnering with leaders in the space community, we will extend the…
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Azure Orbital launches Microsoft into cloud-based space race with Amazon
The world’s largest and most northerly commercial satellite ground station, KSAT’s Svalbard Station in Norway’s Arctic archipelago, will be part of Microsoft’s Azure Orbital network. (KSAT Photo) Call it the Clash of the Cloud Titans: Today Microsoft is taking the wraps off Azure Orbital, a cloud-based satellite data processing platform that competes with Amazon Web…