2 years ago

Over the past year, Microsoft has teamed with Ball Aerospace to develop the prototype for the Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations (CASINO) Program Office, facilitated by the Defense Innovation Unit, demonstrating agile cloud processing capabilities in support of the United States Space Force. For increasingly distributed mission environments, Microsoft Azure delivers the processing power and analysis necessary for these large datasets. The CASINO Program Office demonstrated fast, flexible, and extensible commercial capabilities for ground processing in support of defense missions.

These demonstrations exhibited: “Our tests showed that the cloud is, in fact, a viable solution for data processing, exploitation, and dissemination of data that is not only fast but also flexible, secure, scalable, and resilient.

By combining satellite data with other sources directly in Azure, the Microsoft-Ball Aerospace team demonstrated an innovative approach for ground processing, which opens the possibilities for a range of public sector and commercial applications.