Amazon is planning to launch a pair of prototype satellites.
Amazon.com plans to launch its first Internet satellites into space in the first half of 2024 and offer initial commercial tests shortly thereafter, the company said Tuesday, as it follows Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others. is ready to provide Broadband Internet globally with
Amazon plans to launch its first internet satellites into space in the first half of 2024 and offer early commercial testing shortly thereafter, the company said on Tuesday, as it joins forces with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others to build a global network of satellites. Ready to provide broadband internet at all levels.
Amazon’s satellite internet unit, Project Kuiper, will start mass-producing the satellites later this year, the company said. They will be the first of more than 3,000 satellites the technology giant plans to launch into low-Earth orbit over the next few years.
“We will certainly be beta testing with commercial customers in 2024,” Dave Limp, senior vice president of Amazon devices, told a conference in Washington.
The 2024 deployment target would put Amazon on track to meet a regulatory mandate to launch its entire Kuiper network of 3,236 satellites by 2026. Limp, who oversees Amazon’s powerhouse of consumer devices, said the company plans to build “three to five” satellites a day. to reach that goal.
With plans to pump more than $10 billion into the Kuiper network, Amazon will look to its experience in producing millions of devices from its consumer electronics powerhouse to rival SpaceX, the Musk-owned space company whose Starlink network has previously Since then there are about 4,000 satellites.
Amazon plans to launch a pair of prototype satellites early this year on a new rocket from the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance. A 2024 launch carrying the initial production satellites is expected to be the first of an accelerated deployment campaign using rockets Amazon bought in 2021 and 2022.
The company also revealed Tuesday a slate of three different terminals, or antennas, that will connect customers with its Kuiper satellites in orbit.
The “standard customer terminal,” 11-inch square antennas, will cost the company less than $400 to design and provide Internet speeds of 400 megabits per second for customers, Amazon said in a statement.
SpaceX’s consumer Starlink terminals, which cost $599 each, as well as other bespoke terminals for governments and businesses “are being used by more than one million customers to date”, said Jonathan Hoeffler, head of SpaceX’s Starlink Enterprise Sales said on Monday.
A small, square-shaped mobile antenna measuring 7 inches wide and weighing one pound, it will be Amazon’s “most affordable” terminal for the network, though the company did not disclose the price.
Amazon’s largest, “most capable” antenna model, “designed for enterprise, government and telecommunications applications,” will measure 19 by 30 inches in size and deliver Internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second — a high-definition Fast enough to download a feature-length movie in about 30 seconds.
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