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Customers with existing private spacecrafts with appropriate licenses and authorizations can continue to use the Azure Orbital Ground Station Service until December 18th, 2024. New authorizations will no longer be accepted. Public spacecraft authorizations will end on October 28th, 2024.
Required action
To ensure the continued success of your missions, please arrange offramp plans as soon as possible. Please reach out to us by October 21st, 2024 to get connected with our partners so we can help transition your spacecrafts to our partner networks. You can reach the service team at msazureorbital@microsoft.com.
Suggested alternatives
- For information regarding public spacecrafts and weather data refer to this page.
- For information regarding earth imagery refer to Microsoft Planetary Computer
- For resources on testing vRF refer to IQEngine for publicly available RF datasets.
Help and support
If you have questions, get answers from community experts in Microsoft Q&A. If you have a support plan and you need technical help, create a support request:
- For Issue type, select Technical.
- For Subscription, select your subscription.
- For Service, select My services, then select Azure Orbital Ground Station.
- For Resource, Select the affected spacecraft.
- Select the appropriate Problem type and enter relevant details
- Submit the support request.
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Learn more about service retirements that may impact your resources in the Azure Retirement Workbook. Please note that retirements may not be visible in the workbook for up to two weeks after being announced.
Azure IDazure-orbital-ground-station-retirementUpdate Types(s)Services, RetirementsAdded to roadmap: 10/03/2024|Last modified: 10/03/2024Share
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