January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... recently sought authorisation for an additional 30,000 satellites. The regulatory filings of SpaceX, OneWeb, and Amazon’s Project Kuiper alone foreshadow a 10 to 25-fold increase in the population of LEO satellites in the coming decade. The Aeolus...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
...the global economy. Two prototype satellites for Amazon’s project Kuiper are planned for launch later in 2022 on ... broadband connectivity. It is planning to launch its first Project Kuiper satellites in late 2022. Another tech/cloud giant, Microsoft...
16 October 2019
SpaceX files request to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites
..., as well as the in-progress OneWeb and Globalstar internet networks along with Amazon's recently announced Project Kuiper satellite internet. “Satellite constellations can pose a significant or debilitating threat to important existing and and...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
... off-world broadband enterprise. SpaceX, however, are not alone in their endeavours. Many companies, including Amazon’s Project Kuiper, OneWeb and an unknown Chinese firm all have plans to launch hundreds if not thousands of satellites themselves...
01 August 2023
Report predicts continued growth of smallsat market
... further expand their business horizons. Several players are thus considering >500 kg constellations, including Starlink 2G, Project Kuiper, Telesat Lightspeed, Rivada, Intelsat MEO, and O3b mPower. However, as some constellation operators transition...
30 March 2020
OneWeb files for bankruptcy over financial difficulties
... company faces stiff competition from competitors such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink megaconstellation and Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper initiative. Musk has recently been granted a license by the FCC for the use of up to a million ground terminals...
