Jeff Bezos holds the aviation glasses that belonged to Amelia Earhart arsenic helium speaks during a property league astir his formation connected Blue Origin’s New Shepard into abstraction connected July 20, 2021 successful Van Horn, Texas.
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Jeff Bezos' abstraction task Blue Origin announced Wednesday it plans to deploy 5,408 satellites successful space for a communications web that volition instrumentality connected SpaceX and Amazon.
The network, called TeraWave, is targeted for enterprise, information halfway and authorities users.
The institution said it volition supply information speeds of "up to 6 terabits per second" from satellites positioned successful debased Earth orbit and mean Earth orbit, regions of abstraction that are betwixt 100 miles and 21,000 miles from the Earth's surface.
Blue Origin said it expects to statesman deploying its constellation successful the 4th fourth of 2027.
Bezos is entering an progressively crowded outer net marketplace that's presently dominated by Starlink, a work operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Starlink has much than 9,000 satellites successful orbit and astir 9 cardinal customers.
Amazon, which Bezos founded successful 1994, has besides ramped up its own offering successful the past year. The work precocious rebranded from Project Kuiper to Leo.
The institution has sent up 180 satellites since past April done a bid of rocket launches handled by partners specified arsenic United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.
Several aboriginal deployments are expected to beryllium handled by Blue Origin.
Amazon aims to physique a constellation of 3,236 low-Earth satellites that volition service businesses, governments and consumers. Last November, the institution opened up an "enterprise preview" to prime users up of a broader commercialized launch.
Bezos predicted successful 2024 that Blue Origin would 1 time beryllium a bigger institution than Amazon. He founded Blue Origin successful 2000 and Dave Limp, Amazon's erstwhile devices boss, serves arsenic its CEO.
"I deliberation it's going to beryllium the champion concern that I've ever been progressive in, but it's going to instrumentality a while," Bezos said successful a 2024 interrogation astatine The New York Times' DealBook Summit.
Blue Origin is chiefly a rocket motorboat company, flying tourists and probe to the borderline of abstraction connected abbreviated trips. Last January, the startup notched a large milestone erstwhile it successfully launched its towering New Glenn rocket for the archetypal time, though it was incapable to instrumentality portion of the booster backmost to a launchpad for reuse.
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