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BOULDER, Colo., May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Ball Aerospace, in collaboration with Microsoft, successfully completed a series of demonstrations showing the viability of using commercial cloud computing to process and securely deliver actionable information quickly to those who need it, whether they are in a ground station, command center or on the battlefield.
Enabled by the Defense Innovation Unit s (DIU) fast-paced commercial solutions process, the demonstrations support the United States Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center s (SMC) Commercially Augmented Space Inter-Networked Operations (CASINO) Program Office, which serves as the SMC focal point for proliferated Low Earth Orbit (LEO) technology and prototyping.
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/PRNewswire/ Ball Aerospace, in collaboration with Microsoft, successfully completed a series of demonstrations showing the viability of using commercial.
An artist’s conception shows Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO satellite in orbit. (Telesat Illustration)
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The demonstration of a prototype system was conducted this year for the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit in support of the Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations Program Office, or CASINO, which is under the aegis of the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.
For the purposes of the test, Telesat provided access to its satellite network in low Earth orbit. Ball Aerospace provided the event-driven architecture for dealing with the data beamed down from space. And Microsoft Azure provided the cloud-computing firepower for processing the data and pulling out insights.
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