Tag: satellite broadband
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper highlights new connections to AWS and partners in Japan
A Project Kuiper satellite terminal is set up with a wind farm in the background. (Amazon Photo) As Amazon gears up to build and launch thousands of satellites for its Project Kuiper constellation, it’s talking up the space-based broadband network’s potential to enable new options for managing data traffic with Amazon Web Services — including…
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Amazon says Project Kuiper satellites ace orbital tests — including video streaming
A flight director watches over Project Kuiper’s mission operations center in Redmond, Wash. (Amazon Photo) Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network streamed its first video and facilitated its first online sale during a monthlong series of orbital tests that the company says achieved a “100% success rate.” The performance of the two prototype satellites, known as…
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Amazon says Project Kuiper satellites are maneuvering the way they were built to do
Amazon’s Hall-effect thruster fires up with a krypton glow during testing. (Amazon Photo) A month after the launch of its first prototype Project Kuiper satellites, Amazon reports that the spacecraft have demonstrated controlled maneuvering in orbit using their custom-built electric propulsion systems. “A recent series of test firings provided critical on-orbit data to further validate…
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper prototype satellites are ‘stable in orbit’ and collecting key data
A member of Amazon’s Project Kuiper mission management team in Redmond, Wash., helps monitor the satellites’ activity in space. (Amazon Photo) Amazon said two prototype satellites launched on Friday on a test mission of the company’s Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation are stable in orbit and already collecting important data. In a blog post on Monday,…
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Atlas V rocket launches prototype Amazon satellites to test Project Kuiper network
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket launches Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites. (ULA via YouTube) Amazon’s first satellites were launched today on a mission aimed at testing out the hardware and software for the Seattle company’s worldwide Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation. Two prototype satellites — known as KuiperSat 1 and 2 — rode a United…
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Amazon satellites are placed atop Atlas V rocket for milestone launch on October 6
The Amazon Kuiper Protoflight payload arrives at United Launch Alliance’s Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. (ULA Photo) United Launch Alliance says the first prototype satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband network have been placed atop their Atlas V rocket, with launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida…
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Amazon’s Kuiper satellite network forges partnership with Vodafone’s cell networks
A cellular tower serves as the backdrop for Project Kuiper’s satellite terminal. (Amazon Photo) Vodafone and its African subsidiary, Vodacom, have made a deal to use Amazon’s yet-to-be-deployed Project Kuiper satellite broadband network to extend the reach of their 4G/5G cellular networks. The deal, which was announced this week by Amazon as well as British-based…
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Pension fund’s lawsuit questions Amazon’s decisions on Kuiper satellite launch deal
Amazon plans to have satellites sent into orbit by (from left) United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan-Centaur rockets, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rockets and Arianespace’s Ariane rockets. ULA’s Atlas V rockets are also in the mix — but not SpaceX’s rockets, at least for now. (Amazon Illustration) An Ohio-based pension fund has filed a lawsuit alleging that…
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Plans for launch of prototype satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper revised … again
An artist’s conception shows an Atlas V rocket launching Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites. (ULA / Amazon) Amazon’s plans to launch the first prototype satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation have changed for the second time in a year — and once again, rocket development snags are the reason. The revised plans call for…
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‘Redmond Space District’ celebrates the Northwest’s hotspot for satellite industry
SpaceX employees in Redmond, Wash., give a cheer during the countdown to a Starlink satellite launch in 2019. Thousands of Starlink satellites have been built in Redmond. (SpaceX via YouTube) REDMOND, Wash. — This Seattle-area suburb has played a role in the space industry for more than a half-century, but the city of Redmond is…