SpaceX teams with Microsoft for Space Development Agency contract

October 21, 2020

SpaceNews:

 

SpaceX, earlier this month, won a $149 million contract from the Defense Department’s Space Development Agency to build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX president and chief operating officer, revealed in a pre-recorded interview released on Oct. 20 that Microsoft is a subcontractor working on the SDA program with SpaceX.

Shotwell, in the video, spoke with Tom Keane, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure Global, about a new agreement to use SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband to connect Azure cloud computing data centers deployed around the world…

 

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