Tag: Amazon
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Jeff Bezos’ role at Blue Origin hints at how his profile at Amazon is likely to change
Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, inspects Blue Origin’s launch facility in West Texas before the first test flight of the New Shepard suborbital spacecraft in April 2015. (Blue Origin Photo) What will Amazon without Jeff Bezos as CEO look like? It could look a lot like Bezos’ biggest personal passion project — Blue Origin, which…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Amazon’s Project Kuiper stir up a war of words over satellites
The rivalry between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is back in the news. (Musk Photo: TED via YouTube; Bezos Photo: GeekWire / Kevin Lisota) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon’s Project Kuiper escalated a different kind of Star Wars today, over the orbital parameters for their rival satellite constellations. Musk complained…
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Project Kuiper plus AWS: How Amazon’s cloud and satellite internet ventures mesh
Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure, which includes satellite ground stations, could come in handy for supporting Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband constellation. (AWS Photo) Amazon Web Services and the Project Kuiper satellite internet venture may be separate domains of Jeff Bezos’ business empire, but even Amazon’s executives admit there’s a lot of potential for synergy. That’s…
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper reveals details on customer terminals for satellite internet
A Project Kuiper employee works on antenna hardware. (Amazon / Project Kuiper Photo) Amazon’s Project Kuiper hasn’t yet said when it’ll start launching satellites or providing broadband internet access from above, but it is sharing details about how customers will get their data. The $10 billion project, which aims to put more than 3,200 satellites…
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Amazon vows to invest $10B in Kuiper satellites after getting FCC’s go-ahead
An artist’s conception shows a constellation of satellites in orbit. (Credit: OneWeb) The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Amazon’s plans for a Project Kuiper constellation of 3,236 satellites that would provide broadband internet access across a wide swath of the globe — but on the condition that it doesn’t unduly interfere with previously authorized satellite…
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FCC chief seeks conditional approval for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband satellite network
Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, speaks at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman, Ajit Pai, says he’s proposing approval of Amazon’s plan to put more than 3,200 satellites into low Earth orbit for a broadband internet constellation known as Project Kuiper…
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Amazon reportedly registers interest in bankrupt OneWeb’s broadband satellite constellation assets
An artist’s conception shows one of OneWeb’s satellites in orbit. (OneWeb Satellites Illustration) Amazon is among the players in a bankruptcy bidding game with the assets of the OneWeb satellite venture at stake, according to Space Intel Report. Quoting unnamed industry officials, Space Intel Report’s Peter B. de Selding says other potential bidders include two…
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Report: Amazon joins other satellite constellation ventures in checking out bankrupt OneWeb’s assets
An artist’s conception shows a constellation of satellites in orbit. (Credit: OneWeb) London’s Telegraph newspaper reports that Amazon is understood to be among the entities sifting through the assets of OneWeb, a venture that began building a constellation of broadband internet satellites but filed for bankruptcy in March. Amazon’s interest has to do with its…
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Whip it good! Amazon patents a launch system for snapping payloads into the air — or even into orbit
A diagram shows Amazon’s whip-based launch system in operation on a ship. (Amazon Illustration via USPTO) Never let it be said that Amazon Prime Air VP Gur Kimchi thinks small: His latest patent lays out a plan for a launch system that could theoretically send payloads into space on the end of a miles-long whip,…
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Amazon asks FCC to give swift approval to Project Kuiper satellite network despite SpaceX opposition
Multiple mega-constellations of satellites could take root in low Earth orbit over the next few years. (European Space Agency Illustration) Amazon fired its latest volley today in a back-and-forth debate over whether the company can proceed in an expedited fashion with its 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper mega-constellation for broadband internet access. Today’s 24-page letter to the…