Microsoft's Azure goes to space with new cloud capabilities designing to link ground stations and satellites, all while aiming to increase connectivity on Earth.

AWS's Aerospace and Satellite Solutions business will be headed by reitred Air Force Maj. Gen. Clint Crosier, former director of planning for the U.S. Space Force.

Spock said it best: "Insufficient facts always invite danger."

Secure mobile communication systems are critical to the agency's missions to put a crew on the moon by 2024 and assist with emergency management.

The Air Force will launch its fifth of six satellites for protected communication.

"We need to figure out how to use the resources of the moon to live and work there for long periods of time," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says.