>> Hey friends. Did you know that
by the time it reaches Earth, satellites RF transmissions
are typically a billion times less powerful
than mobile networks, but can still deliver
data at broadband speeds? Hrishi Shelar is here to
show me how Azure Orbital provides a fully managed
ground station as a service, to receive, process, and
store data from satellites, today on Azure Friday. [MUSIC]. >> Hey friends, it's Azure
Friday. This is awesome. Azure Orbital. We're here with rocket scientist. Hrishi Shelar, how are you? >> Hey, Scott? I'm doing
great. How are you? >> I'm pretty freaking good and like no disrespect to your
product or your science, but when I read this, I honestly thought that
Rob was messing with me. Rob is our producer
here on Azure Friday, because I thought it was
like an April Fool's thing. That we have a satellite
ground station as a Service. That is going to be the most awesome Cloud service that I
have ever heard about. >> Yeah, it's pretty amazing and it's that time now where space is going to start
coming to the Cloud, and we're going to see even more
innovation and new services and it's value add products for everyone. >> How would people get
satellite data before? Whether it be a little
satellite or a big satellite, how is it done before? What are we basically removing from? Because when you do
something as a service, you're removing the boring parts. I assume the rocket scientist wants to get the signal
and wants to deal with it, but they don't want to deal with the databases and the tables
and learn SQL and stuff. You want to remove the boring parts. >> That's perfect description
of what we're trying to do. How it used to be done is you would have to build these very complex, expensive ground stations,
which are basically those giant satellite
dishes that sometimes you see on top of buildings
or by the road. You've seen them on
NASA's social accounts. Anyway, people would have
to build those themselves. That's a pretty complex process, it takes a lot of money and you
have to put them across the world. It's different in each country, dealing with each country
has its own problems. This is a common need for a
bunch of satellite operators, so we thought we could just
off lift that complex process, that arduous task of dealing with all that build out
and dealing with regulatory. We take care of that, so you just have to come
on and pay per minute. It's basically a pay as you go model. You don't need any upfront
dollars or anything. You can just login to Azure,
choose Azure Orbital, if you're a satellite
constellation operator, choose the passes you want and
then you just pay per minute. It's all seamless experience. >> This is the most
extraordinary example of hiding complexity with layers of abstraction that I
can't even conceive of. Because I used to work on a website
called 800.com before Amazon, 800.com, we tilt DVDs
and the boss would say, "Can you scale out the system?" Then he goes home, and then he come back on Monday
and the system was scaled out. He's like, "Oh, it's
amazing." Well all weekend long we were racking servers. In his mind, he moves the slider
bar and like the thing scales, but it's us racking servers. Now with Azure, we've hidden
everything behind a slider bar. We've got checkboxes for stuff. There are still physical machines, and there are still people who rack machines and there
are still people who set up these giant
warehouses and data centers, but the business person doesn't care because
that's not their business. You're really freeing the
satellite consolidators to do their business and not
think about the buying the land, to put the dishes on, and all of the details. >> That's spot on. If you're satellite operator or let's say
you're satellites space start-up, which is crazy to think
of that you'd never have. You've had startups for a decade now on app industry or online startups, but rocket launch costs have
just gone down drastically. I'm sure people are aware of
SpaceX and other companies but their innovation means that there can be things like satellite
space constellation startups. Now, we make it very easy
for these guys to focus on the business because they
have that slider approach. If they start off
with one spacecraft, they actually get access to an entire network of ground
stations through orbital, which is something they
classically couldn't do. Then as they scale up, they just request more time, more passes, more minutes, and then it's all
available on orbital. They are perfectly
matched in their business needs and expenditure not
having to like you mentioned, working about building out
those racks themselves or building out those
ground stations. We make it so that they can focus on their business and in the product that they
probably want to deliver, and this stuff is just
abstracted for them. >> That is a wonderful example
of what the Cloud really is, as you focus on your business and we'll worry about
the technical stuff. Fantastic. Can you show me a demo. Do we have a satellite there in your living room. What are we doing? >> What we have here is
a prerecorded pass of a public satellite known as NASA Aqua which is a weather
satellite that NASA operates. The cool thing about
this spacecraft is that it's continuously transmitting for anyone to receive and get
the data from to look at. It is in a frequency
band that you and I don't necessarily always have
access to in a gigahertz but what this satellite
allows us to do is show the world how the system works. You would be able to also
login to the portal, and if you wanted to get familiar, you could do a similar
exercise right here. You could schedule of
past with Aqua and watch the signals come down and you
can get familiar with it. We have a pre-recorded pass here, and the reason it's prerecorded
is because it's quite the feet to do a recording and a
satellite pass in onetime. We've just made it simple for today. >> Sure. >> I can walk you through what
the system looks like here. >> Sure, I'd love to see
that. Before we start though, how fast are these things going? If we were theoretically
to try do something like this live, is it like okay, we've got six minutes as it
goes near arc length of where my visible sky is or
how does that work? >> Great question. These
things are going around Earth. NASA Aqua is going around
Earth every 90 minutes but you have to remember
the Earth is also rotating. What that means is, for
this type of orbit, the passes are either at 2:00
AM or late in the afternoon, and either very short in time, so we have to be right on the
nose to time these two perfectly. Even between days when they occur, they can go back and forth. >> Does Azure Orbital make that
easier for me that I don't necessarily have to be
there to do the analysis? I don't have to do it live, right? >> Absolutely. Azure
Orbital is just not, it's just ground stations, but there are mission planning
tools that are available. We will do the orbital
propagations for you, and when you come onto the portal, as you will see here
in a few minutes, you just say, this is my spacecraft, this is its orbit. Tell me what's going to be
there in the next 10 days, and you can just click, click, click, choose them,
and it will just run, when those passes occur, the system will know
satellites is coming ahead, tell those antennas to go, do and point up, and then you will start
getting your data. We try to make it as easy as
possible for the operators to understanding that
these things can be a complex scheduling problem. >> I love it. This would
have made the movie contacts goes so much differently
than it actually did. Let's see some satellites. >> I've pulled up my
screen. Can you see it? >> Yeah, looks great. >> Awesome. When you get into the portal and you
navigate to Azure Orbital, you'll see these
three big steps here, and we try to make it
as simple as possible. These are the three steps that you
need to do to get your passes. Starts off with registering
your spacecraft, where you enter details such as the frequencies
that are being used, the orbit, and an ID. Then you move on to
the contact profile, which describes what
you're looking for. The antenna requirements and some other parameters that
just help us define how we coordinate that and
conduct that pass. Then once you have those two, step three is where you tie them both together and then
start making your reservations. >> It is amazing things
that you're making. You're talking to a
spacecraft as easy as registering Raspberry Pi
for like an IoT portal. >> Yeah, and that's a great observation because
thinking of spacecrafts, and this whole mechanics
of communicating with these devices far away is
very much like the IoT world. There's a lot of similarities. >> The other thing
that makes me wonder, and this is probably for another
whole show we should talk about, is the idea that satellites, I assume right now are primarily
sensor devices that then spit back the raw data and then
the work happens over here. They're not exactly clever. Their job is to stay up there, think about power, think about sensing, and then bring the data back but it's the new Edge. The Edge network could
theoretically be out there, and you're managing an
Edge network device regardless of whether it's RF, or Ethernet or whatever. There could be additional
processing up there. This could change the design
of satellites themselves. They could become smarter, they
could become different if they know the context or larger Cloud
contexts in which they exist. >> Scott, you should come
and join Orbital I think. You're very acute in
these observations. Absolutely. As satellites
become cheaper, just like launch vehicles, as they get more powerful because the computer industry is
so innovative right now. There's endless possibilities,
and those workloads can happen on the Cloud,
on the satellite. We are the bridge between
both those worlds. Azure, you can chain services. There's so many
different ways to think about how you build out a solution. It's very exciting. >> This is so cool. >> This is just a new service. What you described,
it's in the roadmap. We will definitely get
to a scenario like that. >> I have to say this. I used to think the coolest thing
that I've ever seen before was my Raspberry Pi, Kubernetes cluster but now I need like a mini satellite. What's the size of a satellite? How do I get one of
these in my house? There are actually
smaller than you'd think, I've seen satellites they
are about like that. >> Yeah, I've worked on satellites, this big to as big as a mini fridge. They can get as big as
a school bus truck. It's not larger, sometimes. >> That's awesome. Sorry
to go off on tangents. Let's go back to
on-boarding a spacecraft. >> I'm going to click
"Play" here and then we'll see us tap through a
couple of these options. Described a spacecraft and then those details putting in
the contact profile details, and then you're ready to schedule. We've already created a
contact profile here. I'm going to pause for Aqua, which is that spacecraft
we just described. Here we have some simple
requirements that describe what's your minimum
time that you need for a pass. We have here one minute. That format is just
the Azure time format. Some other requirements
like elevation is provided, and audio track, and X band but these are all very
fine details that have to do with the off satellite
communications. We've already populated a
contact profile here, for Aqua. [inaudible] , we've done the
same for the spacecraft. You'll have a spacecraft object
and we have the NORAD ID, which is awaited to
track objects in space. Then these two items here, TLE, you'll see there's a TLE line. These are just ways the industry
used to describe the orbit. It's pretty cool, the
whole science behind it but with these two lines, you get a full description
of the spacecraft orbit. Also, you can use this
to propagate where that spacecraft might
be a day from now, a couple of days a week from now. This is specifically what enables us to know where the spacecraft is, and then marry that with where the ground station is in time
so we can reserve your past. >> I see. If I may try
to understand this, when I as a lay person, see a TV show where there's
like a number comma, a number and I go, "Oh hey, its latitude and longitude." That's a pair that describes
a place on the planet. A TLE that two line element
describes everything that one needs to know to describe
where the satellite is, how it moves, its orientation, its attitude, its behavior. It's multi-dimensional, encoded into like one thing where
you can copy this guid, this two line element and say, "Yeah, that's everything you need to
know about the satellite." Is that correct? >> Yeah, that's absolutely correct. It's exactly like
latitude, longitude, with some extra spice for direction, velocity and inclination,
all sorts of fun things. But that's a full description
of a spacecraft orbit, just like coordinates fully
describe where you are on Earth. >> Sweet. It's so interesting
to see that it's 2021. Then we're looking at like
a 60-year-old data format. But it was really well-designed and thoughtful and it's the
one everyone agrees upon. That's how we talk about
satellites. It works. >> This is a very
common representation. It's industry standard, even globally accepted as a way to do
this and describe orbits. You come in here and you can
create your spacecraft object. You enter these items. Then those last field
authorization status. There is a final check
that we do to make sure that the spacecraft
that you want to talk to is actually a
registered spacecraft, or is as authorized by the FCC
for these type of transmissions. We do have to make this
check just to be sure. We're not going to do
anything in advertent. >> Cool. >> Moving on. Tabbing over to the contact page, you see that there's nothing there. Let's go ahead and schedule one. We come in here, you choose the contact profile. The ground station is describing the location that you
want to do the scheduling on, so we have multiple regions. West US 2 is the Pacific Northwest. You put in some start
times and end times, and this is the time window and what you want to do
your reservations. >> Does this imply that there is a satellite dish on top
of an Azure Datacenter? Because the ground station is the processing station to
do the ingress of the data. But there is some, now where
does the actual antenna? Where's the actual like capturing
of the thing? Where's the dish? >> Yeah, that's a great question. We have installed these antenna
dishes at our datacenters. The exact locations of the
datacenters are once you're onboarded in the system
and we know who you are we can absolutely share those, and there's also maybe after
this demo we talk about it. We have partner networks too which is what makes this
extremely powerful is that this interface enables you to get access to Microsoft's own dishes, but also a very wide, vast globally available
partner network. You can choose these regions
and in this drop-down here. >> Awesome. >> I've entered some time
windows and the system comes back with these
Least Available passes. It took the TLE, it took
my contact profile, it took my regional preference
and my time window and said, "Hey, looks like in
this upcoming days, you have these passes
available for that region." It'll tell you how long that pass is, which is just part of
the orbital geometry. Maximum elevation is used as a figure of merit for
the satellite pass. All it does is describe how high in the sky the satellite
is passing over. We're going to go ahead and choose
one on the second line here, which is a eight minute 50
seconds pass at 15 degrees. >> This is awesome. This is just like picking an Uber for a
satellite and it's like, you know, and the second one
might get a little longer, but that's the better choice for me. Like you gave it your destination,
you gave it your TLE, it gave you an option of
all the different drivers that are available and then
you make an educated decision. >> Yeah, that's great
analogy, exactly. If you need a faster driver
that needs to come sooner, you could do that or if you
need a driver that will, that maybe has this passes
longer time, you could do that. We choose this one over
here and we schedule it. It's going to create this
contact pass for you. Once it's done, you can
click on it and then we go back to the
spacecraft's page and, on the Contacts tab, we'll see that our
thing is scheduled, and then here you can get
additional details for when the actual start time is and
when the actual end time is. >> In the movies when you
are looking for something, they move the giant satellite and
it's like looking over there. Can I and another person look at two different satellites
at the same time, or is it like synchronous
that we all have to get in line for our time on
the satellite dish? >> Yeah, great question. The dishes are directional. It's a giant parabolic
dish and it's focus is vary in a particular point
in the sky as it moves. What we have is we
have multiple dishes at the sites to solve this. They provide redundancy
to each other, but also the ability to handle, let's say, multiple reservations
were being requested for a site. That's how we solve that and then on top of the
ones that we install, the partner networks further provide
this scheduling optimization. >> That's cool. There's a
lot of different options and then I'm not going to
be fighting for time unless this becomes wildly
popular and everyone is like checking out satellites on Azure Orbital all
day long, every day. >> We do hope that the goal is to get so much demand that we're just putting
these dishes everywhere. >> That would be an
awesome problem to have. You Skechers reservations
start and end time? >> We're going to keep
plan and we'll cut forward to the actual pass here, and let me pause the screen
and describe what's going on. This is at one of our partner
sites, USCI in booster. They have 7.6 meter dish setup here and USCI stands for US
Electrodynamics Incorporated. For those curious, we have
a live webcam view here and these four tabs are a behind the scenes peak that I'd
like to show you just to also talk a little bit about cool technology that we're
adding on top of this. This is a whole another layer
that we didn't even touch, but now we will get
to see what it is. What's going to happen
is we're just coasting, waiting for the satellite
to come overhead. It looks like a pretty good
day in Eastern Washington. >> I'm noticing though,
forgive my ignorance, but you said at the beginning of the conversation
that this was going to be around eight gigahertz and the numbers that I'm
seeing on the screen, like 600 megahertz and one
gigahertz aren't the same area. >> That's a great observation. The antenna is not only
just to RF focusing device, there are some components
in the antenna located right at the feet or
are behind the parabolic dish. What they do is they take your high frequency and then we mean really super highlight,
like extremely high, eight gigahertz is extremely
high and using some RF magic, it just moves it down
couple of notches. >> It's like when we look
at x-rays or we look at heat stuff for the
predator sees infrared. We're seeing it in red and green and blue because we've taken
something that isn't visible and shifted it down into a spectrum by
which it is visible. In this case, we've modified
how one perceives it, so you're making it more
accessibly perceive. >> Right. That's exactly what's happening here and
what we're seeing here, maybe let's just go into the
technology here real quick. What this screen is showing
is a view of the front end and another thing that Azure Orbital does differently is we
virtualized the RF. That's like a big buzzword
but what that really is, is let's say in the classical
way of doing things, you'd have a hardware Modem. So you'd buy this big box and you'd put it near
the ground station, and it would take in the
RF and outcome bits. Well, the problem with that boxes, it only does one type
of RF signal scheme. If you wanted to talk to
multiple spacecrafts, you'd have to have maybe a unique box for each spacecraft
and that doesn't scale, because we want to be able
to add more customers, more different types
of spacecraft's on very fast-paced, ad hoc way. What we do here is we
virtualize that modem and it's extremely cool cutting
edge technology in the satellite communication
industry right now. We take the signal, which slices up really fast, and we record that signal. It's called digitization
so we digitize that signal and that
is piped to the Cloud. In the Cloud we've partnered with these leading software modem
companies cradles and emergent, and we instantiate that hardware box virtually and we feed in the samples, and it does the RF to bits. But now, because this
is software modem, we're very flexible in the type
of RF signals we can accommodate. We've decoupled this unique problem and are solving it in cool ways. >> That sounds as revolutionary to the RF and the satellite
communications industry as software-based networking was
to Azure in the network itself. I was using that example
where I was racking servers. I was literally plugging Ethernet
in and I don't do that anymore. It's just not a thing. Because it's been
abstracted away completely. The flexibility that offers
you the idea that you have all these signals coming in
across the spectrum and you just turn it into bits
is overly simplistic, so you've sliced it further back. You digitize the entire
thing and then wait until the last minute
to turn it into bits because you don't want to
lose any fidelity at all. >> Exactly, and that's
what makes it so powerful is because you get access
to worldwide network of dishes. You can pipe in from
anywhere and then you can process from anywhere too and
exactly how you want to process. This is something you couldn't
do if you were rolling out your own ground station with
your own hardware based modems. You just didn't have that flex. >> That's amazing. All right. >> All right. Let's
walk through this. We're waiting for the
satellite to come up. We'll go through these other
tabs and these two systems here. This Data Defender product is
what pipes those RF streams from the ground station to the Cloud. There is one at the actual site
and there's one in the Cloud, as well as two Data Defender tabs. Then in the Cloud, what we see here is an example of what that
software modem looks like. This one's [inaudible] and it has all the parameters that you would expect for a hardware modem. Except we've just
instantiated this in basically real-time as needed
in the exact scheme we want. Once the satellite comes over, we'll see some data flowing. I'm going to play. We've got this bucket here which
is going to output. That's where the data will be output. The satellites come over the horizon. We're seeing that the digitizers
seeing that signal come up. The Data Defenders are now streaming that digitized signal into the Cloud. It's doing that slicing
really fast and we're getting that high fidelity analog to digital signal going
straight to the Cloud. >> That is 300 plus megabits. That is a lot of information. It's a flood of information. >> Right. Three hundred
megabits is the RF signal. Right now it's 300 megabits. It can scale up too many Gbps
depending on the application. >> I always wondered how my direct TV was able to surf so many channels. >> Oh yeah. In this modem here, we see that we're looking at the signal and this right from
the spacecraft and it's all software-based and the
spectrum plot looks good. We're looking at the carrier
lock stay, it's all locked. This is the signal to noise ratio, which is looking really good. >> There's no one else in
that space interfering? There's no one with
an AM or FM radio, you can hear two channels
at once or someone can leak into your signal space? >> Yeah. Great question. No, because the dish is directional
and if it were to happen, Azure, we'll take a look into
what the interference is. There's a bunch of
work that we do for pre-coordination of where
these dishes go to ensure that it's a quiet environment for the frequencies that we
expect people to operate in. >> Amazing. >> That's just part of the service. >> That's an example of a problem that I would have had
to worry about and now that's not my business.
That's so awesome. >> Great. We work with
the regulatory folks. We make sure the data centers themselves are pretty
frequency clean. Interference is the last problem
that we want. Great question. Yeah, so just tabbing through the different items in
the software modem. These all just represent parameters
typically associated with satellite communications
and everything here is looking really good. Everything is in lock. We're getting the data from the
spacecraft and this is typically what we would expect a majority of the satellite
passes to look like. You go through the
three-step process, you schedule a pass. At time of pass in waiting for the satellite
to come over the horizon. Let me jump forward to the end. Yeah, we wait for the satellite
to come onto the horizon, and then the data starts coming in. It's getting digitized, it's
getting reliably sent to the Cloud, it's getting processed, and this
a good state for eight minutes. Nothing's going wrong.
No drastic changes. This is the perfect satellite pass. In this demo here
we've cut to the end. Since the past was
eight minutes long, we just showed the first minute
and we've cut to the end. We're taking the output
of this modem and then there's a script in the
background that's processing this awkward data which you could download from NASA's aqua website. Since it's a public spacecraft, they let you use
these tools for free. We'll see here that our script is able to pull
out these files here, which are the image files, but also some scientific data files. We're going to open one. Let's see if I can just skip
ahead to when it gets downloaded. We've downloaded one and
then we're using, I guess, some pretty funky tools to look at this data because it's
unformatted, unpolished data. It's just raw of the sensor. It's not just like
JPEG that comes down. It's a very high volume, very raw formatted, just like
when you capture on a DSLR, maybe it's raw pixels, but imagine that 10
fold, the complexity. We're using this tool to take a look at the image
here and we'll see a pop-up on the screen real quick. >> Does every satellite agree? Like the two-line element that
you showed me is effectively a packed data structure in
the classic C data structure where it's like these
two bytes mean this and these eight bits mean that
and then you just basically have binary data and you chop it up because someone decided arbitrarily that these eight bytes mean that. Does every satellite
get to decide how their bits are or do they
just use a standard format? >> Wow. Always impressed
with your questions. It really depends on, let me show you this image
first because it's on-screen. Here's the image on-screen. We're looking at some clouds
over the ocean it looks like. This was just pulled in real-time as you saw
in this demo from Aqua, all within the span of 10 minutes during which
we did this recording. Getting back to your question, is there a standard format? Honestly, one wishes
for a standard format, but that's not the case. The satellites are very different
depending on who builds them, which country is building them, which company is building them from
who the satellite builder was, you can make, build and
procure spacecrafts now. But the cool thing is, because we've virtualized
everything offered in the Cloud, it's so flexible that you're not limited now by those
hardware platforms that you might have been
limited in the past. You can build the service
however you want. You have the selection
of dishes upfront. You have the selection
of software modems, ability to run them in any region, ability to chain that
with any Azure service. You have your own product and
you have your own satellite. You can own the chain end-to-end. >> This is going to sound totally
obvious because I'm sure that the audience who's sticking with
us has figured this out already, but you just blew my
mind because when you said chain with other Azure services, that's where I just
felt like, "Oh, duh, I can bring it into any
Azure service queues, storage, processing, batch, flows". Once it's in, it's my data
and I can go bananas. >> Yeah. I've also just pulled up on the screen here, this is online. >> This is a Data Factory. >> Yeah. If you go to
docs.Microsoft.com, put in Azure Orbital, you would be able to see this page here and this graphic
I just pulled out that describes exactly what
we're talking about. The items in dark blue is what
we handle, the hard stuff, the things that are
abstracted, made easier, made seamless for you, and then items in light blue
are what you can focus on. So you can focus really on security for your products
or your spacecraft. Then, there's data processing
pipeline, honestly, this is the small blue box, doesn't do it justice. That is, as expansive as all
of the Azure's services, which is AI, ML, Databases, IoT, anything like
literally the myriad of options. >> You're right. The
Cloud is your oyster. We've done dozens of videos on the power of Data Factory
and the processing pipeline. The amount of data that
can come in is immense. The amount of chewing on
that data is immense. The marriage of satellite
ground services as a service and Azure itself
is genius. I'm gushing. I know I work here, but
all of the layers of abstraction from the early satellites
in the '50s, '60s, and now, and the Cloud and layers
of abstraction in software engineering and data
structures and science and RF, it's all coming together
into this lovely solution. People in this industry must be absolutely freaking
thrilled about this. >> Yeah, there's a
ton of interest and I don't think we've even gone
past the tip of the iceberg. Honestly, we're just at
the beginning of all this. People in the past built
their own ground stations, built their own data
processing pipelines on-prem. In the past few years, they're moving the data
processing into the Cloud. Now, ground stations are
going into the Cloud. Now, what comes next is we just want to support
all these crazy scenarios, these next-gen spacecraft systems. What this means is that end-to-end
solutions just become easier, faster, more valuable, and we can extract more value out
of the spacecraft. Everyone gains to benefit. >> Awesome. This is in preview. Folks that are
interested can go up to the Azure Orbital overviews or they can get in contact with your team, express their needs, get involved. What can enthusiasts do? Because not everyone who's watching this show has a satellite
that they want to listen to. I would suggest that they look at Software-defined networking
and try to listen to the local radio station and get some RF signals themselves
just to be an enthusiast. But what can I do? Because I don't have a satellite? >> Software-defined networking
is a great analogy for this. There are these hobby-grade software-defined radios
that you can get now. >> I just have a little
one. It was $19. >> Right. It just makes it
accessible for everyone. Yeah, I think you can
get that $20 system and you plug it into your computer
and you can listen to FM radio. That's basically what we're
doing on a massive scale. Definitely if you're
interested, check those out. There's this thing called USRPs, that's just a step
above the $20 dongle. There's an open-source
platform called GNU Radio, which is incredibly powerful. I've used that on personal
projects in the past many times. Right now, we are in private preview, so we're working with some customers to show them how this system works. We'll go into public
preview later this year, which means it would be open for potentially
more hobbyists to come on and get their feet with
this advanced technology. >> This is very exciting. This has been the longest
and most awesome episode of Azure Friday we've ever had. I really appreciate you. I really appreciate you
hanging out with me. >> That's very high phrased. >> No, I'm telling you. It's like three times longer
than ever and we've never had so much space and so much awesomeness and
satellites and everything. This has been super amazing and
actually, it's my birthday, so it's really my best
birthday gift ever. >> Happy birthday. I'm glad we're able to have
such an awesome talk. >> All right. I am just gushing about
the excitement about what's happening right now
in space and in the Cloud. We're learning all about Azure
Orbital today on Azure Friday. >> Hey, thanks for watching
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