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Microsoft on the offensive in space

2020-10-20T13:21:50.816Z


The computer giant is forging partnerships with SpaceX and SES to provide cloud customers with access to space data in regions of the world not connected by terrestrial means.


A giant leap.

Microsoft immediately sets the tone for its new project which aims to combine the cloud industries (storage and access to data) and those of space.

The IT giant announced on Tuesday the creation of a new platform, called Azure Space, which aims "

to make space connectivity and computing more and more accessible

 " to entire areas of human activity. , from agriculture to energy, including aeronautics, telecommunications, but also governments and public institutions.

Read also: The Council of State leaves the health data of the French at Microsoft

To this end, Microsoft has unveiled two partnership agreements with SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company, and with the telecom satellite operator SES.

These two partnerships aim to give Space Azure a global satellite base and access, to platform customers, to high-speed space connectivity services via SpaceX's Starlink constellation which rotates in low orbit and 03B, the one piloted by SES. in orbit

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Source: lefigaro

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