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Microsoft has buddied up with Thales Alenia Space as it continues to set up ground stations in its data centres as part of its Azure Orbital push.
The company is up against stiff competition from cloud rival AWS in the Ground-station-as-a-Service stakes. Last month Bezos team dangled $1m of cloud credit before space startups as part of its Space Accelerator programme. AWS Ground Station itself became available ahead of Azure Orbital in 2019, leaving Microsoft with a bit to do to win the hearts and hydrazine of satellite operators.
AWS launches start-up Space Accelerator program
Open to those that work with space technology or space-derived data. Credit: Unsplash
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its Space Accelerator program to support start-ups that operate in the space industry from around the world.
Running in collaboration with the UK-based space technology investment group Seraphim Capital, the program will place 10 companies around the globe in a four-week accelerator program in June 2021, which may receive up to US$100,000 in AWS Activate credit.
The program is described by AWS as an “intensive, four-week program”, offering AWS cloud and technical training to accelerate research, development and growth to start-ups at all stages that work with space technology or space-derived data that have “have a clearly defined and unique mission”.