The new Microsoft business unit, Azure Space developed a strategic partnership with SpaceX, the pioneer and major player in the “New Space” industry. Microsoft Azure will get access to SpaceX’s quickly developing Starlink satellite-constellation network for the optimum use of its Azure Modular Datacenter (MDC).
Microsoft software is taking its Redmond, Washington-based spinoff business the Azure Space cloud computing platform into new space. Azure Space hired a bevy of space-sector experts and engineers to develop services including space mission simulations, satellite data collection interpretation, and forecasting as well as, providing global satellite networking capabilities through partnerships with existing players.
Starlink internet is growing a mega-constellation satellite system
SpaceX continues ramping up its Starlink Internet service. On October 18, SpaceX launched a bundle of 60 satellites from Kennedy Space Center. In a tweet, SpaceX founder and CEO, Elon Musk says that efforts continue to provide “high-speed broadband Internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable.”
