New Microsoft Azure off-planet space solutions are here
Azure is lifting off to a space mission near you.
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If you thought Microsoft’s various cloud endeavors were useful down here on the ground, you don’t know the half of it; the company’s blasting off Team Rocket-style to bring the power of Azure and AI to the stars.
Microsoft whipped up a comprehensiveblog postdetailing the big-ticket items actively being worked on. Included in the current lineup of initiatives:
Some of those are self-explanatory, but others require a bit of explanation. For example, “Astronaut Safety” refers to thejoint effortbyHPE, NASA, and Microsoftto enable solutions for automatically detecting damage to astronaut equipment. That includes glove monitors since, as told by Microsoft, astronaut gloves are at risk of getting cut by glass-like micrometeorite shards and all of the surfaces said shards carve knife-like sharp edges into. It’s crazy stuff!
Microsoft’s also helping up the quality of satellite imagery with AI, working with Thales Alenia Space on “Earth Observation sensors” to help process climate data, and partnering with Loft Orbital to cook up new Azure-based apps for space systems. If you want a deep dive into Microsoft’s activities, go check out its posts that explore the deeper aspects of the current projects, but otherwise, just know that while other cloud services say the sky’s the limit, Microsoft seems keen to take its products as far out as possible.
In more down-to-Earth cloud news,Microsoft’s partnering with Boeingto help update the latter company’s infrastructure.
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