Microsoft partners with SpaceX to connect Azure Platform to Satellites

Current Context: Microsoft has teamed up with satellite operator named SpaceX with an aim to provide uninterrupted Azure service to its customers.

• This partnership is made to target space customers.
• Microsoft’s partnership with SpaceX Starlink will provide high speed with an minimum latency for satellite broadband service for Microsoft’s Azure Modular Datacenter. 
• For this purpose, Microsoft has formed a team of space industry veterans so that they can collaboratively work with product engineers and scientist.
• The Microsoft team and product engineers and scientist will be developing cloud capabilities which will lead to space exploration.
• They will work in innovation areas related to space missions, discovering insights from satellite data and to fuel innovation at the ground as well as orbit level.
• Once the space mission gets coupled with Azure’s high-performance computing platform, machine learning and data analytics abilities for satellites will then open new opportunities for organisations.
• Static Part: 
• HQ of Microsoft Corporation: Redmond, Washington, US
• CEO of Microsoft: Satya Nadella
• HQ of SpaceX: Hawthorne, California, US
• CEO of SpaceX: Elon Musk

Question: 

Q.1 Who among the following teamed up with SpaceX with an aim to provide uninterrupted Azure service to its customers?
a. IBM
b. Apple
c. Microsoft
d. Google