- 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
a. IBM
b. Apple
c. Microsoft
d. Google
