Amazon plans to launch over 3,000 satellites to offer broadband internet
5 years, 9 months ago

Amazon plans to launch over 3,000 satellites to offer broadband internet

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: Amazon.com Inc on Thursday confirmed its plan to build a network of over 3,000 satellites through "Project Kuiper" to provide high speed internet. The project will launch a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to people globally who lack basic access to broadband internet, the company said. Amazon's satellite project faces stiff competition from similar ventures from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX and Airbus-backed OneWeb among others. Companies such as SpaceX, LeoSat Enterprises and Canada's Telesat are working to enable data networks with hundreds or even thousands of tiny satellites that orbit closer to Earth than traditional communications satellites, a radical shift made possible by leaps in laser technology and computer chips.

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Amazon reveals UK satellite internet plan
2 days, 15 hours ago

Amazon reveals UK satellite internet plan

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Amazon has revealed plans to provide high-speed broadband and mobile phone signal through …

Elon Musk congratulates Jeff Bezos on Satellite internet launch success
1 year, 3 months ago

Elon Musk congratulates Jeff Bezos on Satellite internet launch success

India TV News  

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk extended his well wishes to Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO Andy Jassy after Amazon's successful launch of its first two prototype Kuiper satellites for providing affordable internet services from space. Amazon's Project Kuiper, a low Earth orbit satellite broadband initiative, aims to deploy over 3,200 satellites in LEO to compete with Musk's Starlink, …

Amazon launches test satellites for its planned internet service to compete with SpaceX
1 year, 3 months ago

Amazon launches test satellites for its planned internet service to compete with SpaceX

The Hindu  

Amazon launched the first test satellites for its planned internet service on Friday as a rival to SpaceX’s broadband network. United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket blasted off with the pair of test satellites, kicking off a programme that aims to improve global internet coverage with an eventual 3,236 satellites around Earth. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has a huge head start …

Amazon launches two satellites to compete with Musk’s Starlink
1 year, 3 months ago

Amazon launches two satellites to compete with Musk’s Starlink

Live Mint  

With an aim to deliver the internet from space and compete with Elon Musk's Starlink service, Amazon launched two satellites on Friday. Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos said that Project Kuiper will provide fast, and affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world with a constellation of more than 3,200 satellites in low Earth orbit. Rajeev Badyal, Project Kuiper's …

Amazon takes on Starlink with Project Kuiper's inaugural satellite launch
1 year, 3 months ago

Amazon takes on Starlink with Project Kuiper's inaugural satellite launch

India TV News  

Amazon is set to launch its initial two prototype satellites, KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2, on its "Protoflight" mission as part of Project Kuiper, the company's low Earth orbit satellite broadband venture aimed at competing with Elon Musk's Starlink. To rival Elon Musk's Starlink, which already has over 4,000 satellites in orbit for delivering affordable Internet, Amazon envisions deploying a constellation of …

Amazon shareholder sues board, Bezos over Blue Origin launch contracts
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon shareholder sues board, Bezos over Blue Origin launch contracts

The Hindu  

An Amazon shareholder has filed a lawsuit against founder Jeff Bezos and the Amazon board alleging directors failed to fully vet a decision to award launch contracts for the company's Project Kuiper satellite project to Blue Origin, Bezos's space company. The lawsuit filed by Cleveland Bakers and Teamsters Pension Fund earlier this week claims that the Amazon board awarded contracts …

Bharti backed OneWeb to launch 36 satellites with ISRO for low-orbit connectivity
1 year, 9 months ago

Bharti backed OneWeb to launch 36 satellites with ISRO for low-orbit connectivity

The Hindu  

OneWeb, the Low Earth orbit satellite communications company, will launch 36 satellites with ISRO on 26 March 2023. The launch, scheduled to take place from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, will be the final launch that aims at completing the first-generation LEO constellation and enabling the initiation of global coverage in 2023. This launch will be one …

Amazon partners with three firms to launch its satellite internet constellation
2 years, 9 months ago

Amazon partners with three firms to launch its satellite internet constellation

The Hindu  

Amazon has announced agreements with three companies – Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance, to deploy the majority of its Project Kuiper satellites that aim to provide high-speed, low-latency broadband to a wide range of customers across the globe. The announcement brings Amazon’s satellite internet constellation one step closer to reality, as its rival Elon Musk-owned SpaceX continues to …

SpaceX Starlink Has New Competition as Amazon May Launch Satellite Internet in India
3 years, 7 months ago

SpaceX Starlink Has New Competition as Amazon May Launch Satellite Internet in India

News 18  

Amazon is reported to begin steps for bringing high-speed satellite internet services to India soon, people familiar with the matter were quoted in an Economic Times report as saying. Amazon will soon approach the government to discuss the modalities, authorisations, permits, landing rights, and satellite bandwidth leasing costs, the ET report cited sources as saying. The sources told ET that …

Amazon picks launch partner to deploy Project Kuiper satellites
3 years, 8 months ago

Amazon picks launch partner to deploy Project Kuiper satellites

The Hindu  

Amazon said on Monday that it has secured an agreement with space launch firm, United Launch Alliance, to support the deployment of its Project Kuiper satellites. As Amazon’s first launch partner, ULA’s nine Atlas V launch vehicles will help deploy some of Amazon’s broadband satellites to low Earth orbit. The company plans to use “multiple launch vehicles and launch partners” …

Bharti Global-owned OneWeb launches 36 more satellites
3 years, 9 months ago

Bharti Global-owned OneWeb launches 36 more satellites

Live Mint  

OneWeb, a broadband satellite communications company acquired by a consortium of investors comprising the UK government and Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Global, has launched 36 more satellites from Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia, taking the total to 146, the company said on Thursday. The satellite communications company aims to have a total of 648 low-earth orbit satellites as part of its plan …

OneWeb launches 36 satellites with an aim to offer high-speed internet in India by mid-2022
4 years ago

OneWeb launches 36 satellites with an aim to offer high-speed internet in India by mid-2022

Firstpost  

OneWeb launched the 36 satellites from a Soyuz launch vehicle, which began from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, in Russia. Bharti Global and UK government-led OneWeb on Friday announced the launch of 36 communications satellites and said it aims to offer high-speed internet from its constellation of satellites in India by mid-2022. OneWeb has secured global priority spectrum rights and now successfully …

Amazon's Project Kuiper customer terminal delivers speeds up to 400 Mbps
4 years ago

Amazon's Project Kuiper customer terminal delivers speeds up to 400 Mbps

The Hindu  

Amazon has developed a small, low-cost customer terminal for ‘Project Kuiper’, its satellite-based internet service from low Earth orbit. The tech giant said the phased array antenna is based on a new architecture capable of delivering high-speed, low-latency broadband, and will allow customers to connect to satellites passing overhead. Amazon’s phased array antenna used “tiny antenna element structures to overlay …

Amazon's Project Kuiper gets FCC approval; half of its 3,236 internet satellites to go up by 2026
4 years, 5 months ago

Amazon's Project Kuiper gets FCC approval; half of its 3,236 internet satellites to go up by 2026

Firstpost  

Project Kuiper is supposed to have gotten its names from the region of the Solar System called Kuiper belt. The US Federal Communications Commission has given Amazon unanimous approval to launch and operate a constellation of 3,236 internet-providing satellites as part of its ‘Project Kuiper’ – a codename that is said to be changed once the project begins commercial operations. …

Amazon wins FCC approval for Kuiper internet constellation
4 years, 5 months ago

Amazon wins FCC approval for Kuiper internet constellation

Daily Mail  

Amazon received approval from the Federal Communications to build a $10 billion internet constellation in low Earth orbit that would compete with Elon Musk's Starlink network. Amazon received approval from the Federal Communications to build a $10 billion internet constellation in low Earth orbit that would compete with Elon Musk's Starlink network Amazon first announced plans for the Kuiper System …

Amazon takes on SpaceX to build satellite broadband service
4 years, 5 months ago

Amazon takes on SpaceX to build satellite broadband service

The Hindu  

Amazon said it has received approval to build low earth orbit satellites to provide high-speed and low latency broadband service to under-served regions. The US Federal Communication Commission approved Amazon’s Project Kuiper in a 5-0 vote, allowing the technology company to deploy and operate a constellation of 3,236 inter-connected satellites to provide internet. The technology company said it will provide …

Softbank-backed satellite startup OneWeb files for bankruptcy
4 years, 9 months ago

Softbank-backed satellite startup OneWeb files for bankruptcy

CNN  

New York CNN Business — OneWeb — which for years chased a multibillion-dollar dream of beaming cheap, high-speed Internet from space — filed for bankruptcy on Friday. The company said it plans to “pursue a sale of its business in order to maximize the value of the company.” OneWeb’s assets include 74 internet satellites that launched into orbit over the …

SpaceX rival OneWeb launches 34 more internet satellites
4 years, 11 months ago

SpaceX rival OneWeb launches 34 more internet satellites

CNN  

New York CNN — A rocket blazed into space Thursday afternoon carrying 34 OneWeb satellites. Thursday’s launch is expected to be the first of 10 that OneWeb will execute this year as it grows its constellation of internet-beaming satellites to more than 300 devices, the company’s CEO, Adrian Steckel, told CNN Business. SpaceX and OneWeb are both basing their satellite …

Elon Musk sent out first tweets via SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet
5 years, 2 months ago

Elon Musk sent out first tweets via SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

Firstpost  

While SpaceX is preparing to successfully deploy its network of Starlink satellites to beam down broadband connectivity to the most remote areas on Earth, Elon Musk is having fun with the under-construction network. With the Starlink satellites, SpaceX aims to launch a constellation network to give internet coverage from space. — Elon Musk October 22, 2019 Once up and running, …

SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its internet network
5 years, 7 months ago

SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its internet network

Live Mint  

SpaceX on Thursday launched a rocket carrying the first 60 satellites of its "Starlink" constellation, which is intended to provide internet from space and could one day number 12,000 satellites. Billionaire Elon Musk's firm, which is leading the private space race when it comes to rocket launches, is now looking to seize a chunk of the future space internet market. …

SpaceX gears up to launch sixty demo Starlink internet satellites on 15 May
5 years, 7 months ago

SpaceX gears up to launch sixty demo Starlink internet satellites on 15 May

Firstpost  

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Saturday that sixty new satellites in the Starlink network will be launched into space on 15 May — the first in a series of thousands that SpaceX hopes to launch over the next few years for internet coverage from space. “This next batch of satellites will really be a demonstration set for us to see …

Amazon has planes, drones and now…satellites?
5 years, 8 months ago

Amazon has planes, drones and now…satellites?

CNN  

New York CNN Business — Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in the world. Earlier this month, Amazon announced plans to build a constellation of miniature satellites that will whirl around the planet and deliver cheap, high-speed internet to every corner of the globe. If Amazon wants to gobble up some of the untapped markets around the world, …

Project Kuiper: Amazon's plans for a 3,236-satellite network for high-speed internet
5 years, 9 months ago

Project Kuiper: Amazon's plans for a 3,236-satellite network for high-speed internet

Firstpost  

Amazon, too, will join many other big & small names in the race to provide global access to internet. A spokesperson from Amazon confirmed that the initiative exists in an email statement to GeekWire, calling it a “long-term project aiming to serve tens of millions of people that lack basic Internet connectivity.” What is Project Kuiper? The name won’t stick …

Amazon plans to launch 3,236 satellites to provide broadband access around the world
5 years, 9 months ago

Amazon plans to launch 3,236 satellites to provide broadband access around the world

India Today  

Amazon is joining the space-race to provide internet accross the globe. The Seattle-headquartered tech company is planning to launch a network of 3,236 satellites in the lower Earth orbit in an ambitious attempt to provide broadband access to people around the globe. According to a GeekWire report, last month, Kuiper Systems LLC made three sets of filings with the International …

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