Azure Orbital documentation

Azure Orbital is a cloud-based Ground Station as a Service that allows you to streamline your operations by ingesting space data directly into Azure.

About Azure Orbital

Overview

• Why use Azure Orbital?
• What is the Space Partner Community?

Get started with Earth Observation

Quickstart

• Register a spacecraft
• Configure a contact profile
• Schedule a contact

Manage your resources

How-To Guide

• Prepare network to receive and send data
• License your spacecraft
• Integrate partner network ground stations
• Receive real-time telemetry
• Update the spacecraft TLE
• Cancel a contact

Azure Orbital Analytics

Overview

• What is Azure Orbital Analytics?

Concept

• Geospatial reference architecture
• Spaceborne data analysis with Azure Synapse Analytics

Tutorial

• Schedule a contact with NASA's AQUA public satellite
• Collect and process AQUA satellite payload

Concepts

Concept

• Contact
• Contact profile
• Spacecraft object