A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off carrying Amazon's two prototype relay stations for a space-based internet service it calls Project Kuiper, from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., October 6, 2023. The launch is the first to test Amazon's internet satellites in space before deploying some 3,200 more.
Over the coming days and weeks, Amazon hopes to use the satellites to “add real-world data from space to years of data collected from lab and field testing” as it works to put up the rest of its Kuiper constellation, the company said in a“We’ve done extensive testing here in our lab and have a high degree of confidence in our satellite design. But there’s no substitute for on-orbit testing,” Rajeev Badyal, Kuiper’s vice president of technology, said in the post.
The goal is to connect the many millions of people in rural and remote areas without access to broadband. The system works by beaming internet signals from the satellites to small ground terminals.Amazon executives see the Kuiper network as an eventual competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink service, which has grown quickly and has become a lifeline in Ukraine, as well a flash point for controversy.
Those launch contracts spurred a lawsuit, filed in August by an Amazon shareholder, that alleges the company breached its fiduciary duty by failing to“By excluding SpaceX, Bezos and his management team minimized bid competition for the launch agreements and likely committed Amazon to spending hundreds of millions of dollars more than it would have otherwise had to,” the.
Amazon believes it has an advantage by building on its already massive customer base, as well as its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services, which it has said should help the company deliver high-speed internet.
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