Starlink boasted about beating the meta a few weeks ago two million customers. At first glance, this is a great number, but according to Elon Musk’s original and much exaggerated ideas from 2015, there should have been more than ten times that number by this time. And to make matters worse, competing satellite internet from Amazon will soon enter the game.
His name is Kuiper and the Atlas V rocket before a few days brought out his first two and so far only experimental satellites KuiperSat-1 a KuiperSat-2. It should be noted that after several postponements and with a one-year delay.
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The start was slower, but now they will have to step on the gas in Amazon even more, because they are literally being pressed by a heart attack deadline. At least half of the planned satellites must be in orbit by July 2026. This is the condition on the basis of which they obtained a broadcast license from the US Federal Telecommunications Authority FCC.
For now, Amazon is keeping the Kuipersat parameters to itself. All we know about them is that the first two prototypes (KuperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2) fit into these two boxes
Amazon got the green light to ship 3236 satellites to low orbit (LEO) to altitude 590-630 kilometers. Just for comparison, Starlink flies only a few tens of kilometers lower (roughly 550 km). For SpaceX, it would be a bit of an exaggeration, because it has its own Falcon rocket launchers, but Amazon is in a much more precarious situation.
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