31 July 2020
Amazon's Kuiper mega constellation gets FCC approval
... a 5-0 vote, approved Amazon’s plans to deploy its Project Kuiper mega constellation of 3,236 satellites, so that the internet ... “Amazon will invest more than $10 billion in Project Kuiper. This investment will create jobs and infrastructure around ...
08 July 2019
Amazon seeks approval for 3,236 broadband satellite constellation
...intended low Earth orbit internet service. News of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband venture was first reported by GeekWire back in...FCC. The filings don’t go into detail about Project Kuiper’s satellite design, or when they would be launched...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... ever-increasing large number of satellites in a megaconstellation, such as those planned by SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s proposed Project Kuiper, the answer to the world’s internet access problems? It depends on who you ask. Astronomers for instance are...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
...than the 3,236 satellites planned as part of Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper network. This sheer volume of satellites expected to dominate our skies...far, only one of these super-sized space internet projects have been authorised (to some degree) by the US...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
... its roll-out of its satellites in February and online retailer Amazon is working on a 3,200-satellite proposal known as Project Kuiper.
23 March 2020
OneWeb launches 34 more satellites amid bankruptcy concerns
...by Bloomberg, as it faces stiff competition from competitors such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink megaconstellation and Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper initiative, who plan to put 40,000+ and 3236 satellites respectively into space to achieve the same off...
