Amazon joins SpaceX in satellite internet race

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It always had to always be a first airline to jump to Amazon’s low soil or orbit satellite network and to test Project Kuiper’s fast, reliable connection commitment. And Jetblue’s decision to touch the services In elite planes starting from 2027 And the wifi advantages on fly-fi flights, airline customers Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines and Air France, including the appreciation of Starlink to catch the Amazon with a wide space.

However, Amazon’s new victory, SpaceX’s Eutelink’s Eutelink’s Oneweb, in the despite China’s space and Viasat, injected a new challenge in which SpaceX has emerged as a more and more dominant player. To be sure, Amazon’s project Kuiper’s constellation is still in the early days, only with only 102 satellites in orbit – a decrease in the sea compared to 1,600 units of the Federal Communication Commission requires the deployment until July 2026, and Jeff Bezos’s company is more determined compared to July 2029. 8,393 satellite As of September 8, this Starlink was orbit, 12,000 spacecraft, the company was allowed to be released under the first approval by FCC.

It is enough to say, Musk’s Starlink has a starting edge on the scale that helps in addition to SpaceX’s important launch capacity. The company impressively not only the 100 Falcon 9 launch until mid -August. With 72 of these space flights Starlink is carrying satellites. In the meantime, only in January this year, the blue origin of Bezos, still assigned to the 12 kuiper launch of the heavy-fiber new Glenn’in hymen flights-15 more option-with a option. Back to 2022.

Temporary, Amazon’s first Kuiper parties reached the low orbit of the services of United Launch Alliance’s other commercial providers such as Atlas v Rocket, and perhaps ironicly given the Falcon 9 of Musk and Bezos.

Satellite internet provision market has a reason for warming up. Global satellite operators planned about 70,000 Leo satellite plans for launch between 2025 and 2031. According to a March report of Goldman SachsAllen Chang, President of the Grand Chinese Technology, predicts that “satellite internet technology is an upcoming 6G communication”. Although 6G is not expected to be released commercially for at least five years, an increase in Leo satellite services, about 2.5 billion people – Or 30.5% of the world’s population- with users in areas where the war is broken or sparsely populated, lack internet access.

SpaceX does not sit idle while preparing to enter the Amazon Arena and supply customer service Until the end of 2025. Only the company accepted this week Roughly 17 billion dollars of agreement To support SpaceX President and Operation Officer Gwynne Shotwell and Echostar’s wireless spectrum licenses and Starlink’s 5G business Purchasing As another step on social media, “To advance our mission to end mobile dead regions all over the world!”

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NASA Rover finds possible signs of life on Mars – An example collected by NASA’s “Cheyava Waterfalls” rock, which has been collected by a perseverance trip, has revealed biosignatures that can imply the potential past life on the red plant. – Space and Defense

Sun origins of super -fast electrons have been announced – The solar orbit of the European Space Agency detected two types of solar energy electrons (see) with different sources in solar flare and coronal mass ejections. – European Space Agency

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NASA targets a large number of crew fields after the ISS period. – NASA made suggestions for future manned stations, followed by the planned retirement of the International Space Station at the end of the decade. – Excessive technology

Space force to distribute small satellites for Geo CommS -ABD Space Force is now turning to small Jeostationary communication satellites within the scope of the protected tactical Satcom-Global (PTS-G) program. – Space News

SpaceX Dragon capsule pokes further away from Earth – A SpaceX Drago Cargo capsule removed the international space station from the Earth and completed the turnkey. Visiting the cargo spacecraft – historically, Russia’s progress spacecraft – when the facility naturally falls to the planet, it periodically pushes ISS to higher than the Earth’s orbit. – Space.com

NASA is working on Chinese citizens’ space programs – NASA limited Chinese citizens to the space agency on programs in the middle of a heating race to reach the moon between the two countries with US visas. – Bloomberg

SpaceX buys Echostar’s wireless spectrum licenses – SpaceX will obtain Echostar’s wireless spectrum licenses in a $ 17 billion agreement to serve the expansion of the 5G connection capabilities of the Starlink satellite network. – Reuters

Spacetech Astradyne collected 2 million euros for space solar panels – Italy’s Astradyne collected 2 million euros ($ 2.34 million) for the development of ultralight solar panels designed to be used in space through Primo Space Fund in a seed investment tour managed by Primo Capital. – Eu-startups.com

Nordspace to try the Taiga launch until mid -September -Nordspace hopes to realize Canada’s first commercial area with the departure of the Taiga rocket until the middle of this month. The company could not remove the rocket in August before. – Vocm