GROUND SEGMENT · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-06-10

Microsoft Azure Space

Active Ground Segment Subsidiary HQ: Redmond, Washington Founded 2020

Microsoft's space product line - a hedged enabler rather than an orbital data-center operator: the Azure Orbital Space SDK for on-orbit application hosting, Azure Orbital ground-station services, and an on-orbit computing collaboration with Thales Alenia Space. Positioned as the software and control plane for other companies' orbital hardware; no Microsoft-owned compute constellation announced.

47.6

ARI Composite

Moderate Risk

#35 of 56

Peer Rank

Manufacturing cohort

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Total Launches

No flights tracked

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Estimated valuation

Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

47.6

ARI composite · Moderate Risk

Peer rank#35 of 56

Peer groupManufacturing

Data coverage45%

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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorGround Segment

Rank within sector#35 of 56

Tracked peers56

Secondary sectors

Orbital Data Centers

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameMicrosoft Corporation (Azure Space)

OwnershipSubsidiary

HeadquartersRedmond, Washington

CountryUS

Founded2020

ParentMicrosoft Corporation

AliasesAzure Space, Azure Orbital, Microsoft Azure Space

Key programsAzure Orbital Space SDK, Azure Orbital ground station, On-orbit compute collaboration with Thales Alenia Space

Gov customersDoD (Azure Government)

IPO statusN/A - Microsoft product line (parent NASDAQ-listed)

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Microsoft Azure blog documents the Orbital Space SDK on-orbit hosting framework and ground-station products.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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