New satellite connectivity and geospatial capabilities with Azure Space

Last year, Microsoft announced Azure Space, bringing together the possibilities of Space with the power of the cloud to help people and organizations achieve more on and off the planet.

Today we are announcing new partnerships and capabilities for Azure Space including:

• Azure Orbital reaches preview—now anyone can communicate and control satellites, from our owned and partnered ground-stations around the world—with no backhaul costs into Azure.
• Innovations built on Azure are “seeing” through the clouds with SpaceEye, and enhancing imagery with Project Turing.
• Our new partnership with Airbus is bringing the world’s leading high-resolution satellite imagery and elevation data into Azure, to further transform our understanding of the world.
• A virtualization partnership with iDirect, one of the largest satellite modem providers, is creating modern and flexible solutions for customers.
• New geospatial and data analytics partnerships with Esri, Blackshark.ai, and Orbital Insight on Azure are enabling new insights for our customers.

Learn more.