AWS announces the formation of a new aerospace and satellite solutions business unit led by the retired Air Force General who set up the US Space Force . Over the next few months , Amazon pours $ 10bn into project Kuiper , aiming to establish space-based cloud computing by launching over 3,000 LEO satellites .

Microsoft announces Azure Space , a partnership with SpaceX Starlink that promises to bring together an ecosystem of satellite providers to deliver spacebased broadband to a network of edge data centres on the ground . Although it doesn ’ t use satellites for data storage and processing , it enhances the current use of spacesuitable hardware and satellite infrastructure .

Startup OrbitsEdge will put a high-powered HPE EL 8000 micro data centre into orbit , delivering spacenative computing power that is comparable to what a terrestrial HPC facility can deliver on Earth .

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