20 Oct
2020
20 Oct
'20
4:28 p.m.
Everyone is rushing to put The Cloud into LEO, it seems.
This morning's WSJ: "Microsoft Teams With Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Push Cloud Battle With Amazon Into Orbit"
Microsoft would help connect and deploy new services using swarms of low-orbit spacecraft being proposed by SpaceX, and more traditional fleets of satellites circling the earth at higher altitudes. Microsoft’s initiative targeting commercial and government space businesses, formally launched Tuesday, comes about three months after Amazon Web Services, the e-retailer’s cloud unit, disclosed its space-focused effort.
Shorter story here, too:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/microsoft-teams-with-elon-musks-space...
--- Zach N0ZGO