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The Amazon Kuiper high-bandwidth customer terminal is designed to deliver speeds up to 1 gigabit per second.
Project Kuiper set a design goal to build a customer terminal that costs less than $500 to manufacture.
Amazon unveiled user terminals for Project Kuiper on 2023-03-14 at the Satellite 2023 conference in Washington.
The standard 28-centimeter Project Kuiper terminal is capable of speeds up to 400 megabits per second and costs less than $400 to produce.
Amazon plans to produce 3 to 5 Project Kuiper satellites daily to meet its deployment schedule.
Amazon plans a high-end Project Kuiper terminal measuring 0.48 m by 0.76 m to provide speeds up to 1 gigabit per second for enterprise and government customers.
The Project Kuiper terminals are powered by a baseband chip Amazon designed called Prometheus.
Amazon has enough data to start building operational Project Kuiper satellites and expects to have made multiple spacecraft by the end of 2023 for launches starting in the first half of 2024.
An ultra-compact Project Kuiper terminal about the size of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader weighs just under 0.5 kg and is designed to offer speeds up to 100 megabits per second.
The standard Project Kuiper terminal for residential and small business customers is a 28-centimeter square design and weighs less than 2.3 kg without its mounting bracket.
Amazon expects to start providing Project Kuiper beta services to large customers in certain regions later in 2024.
The Federal Communications Commission granted, subject to conditions, Kuiper Systems LLC’s application to modify its license for a non-geostationary orbit satellite constellation.
Kuiper Systems LLC’s modified license authorizes a constellation providing fixed-satellite service and Mobile Satellite Service using Ka-band radio frequencies.
Approval of the updated orbital debris mitigation plan satisfies a condition of the FCC’s 2020 conditional grant for Kuiper Systems LLC to deploy and operate its NGSO system.
Project Kuiper will deploy three orbital shells at 590 km, 610 km, and 630 km and will comprise a total of 3,236 satellites.
Blue Origin previously won a contract from Amazon in April 2023 for 12 Project Kuiper launches with an option for 15 additional launches.
The Federal Communications Commission previously approved Project Kuiper in 2020 subject to an updated mitigation plan.
Amazon received initial FCC clearance for its Ka-band Project Kuiper constellation in 2020 on the condition that it secure regulatory approval for an updated orbital debris mitigation plan.
In addition to Peregrine, the inaugural Vulcan launch, called Cert-1 by ULA, will carry two demo satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation.
The two demo satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper will be deployed into low Earth orbit while the Peregrine lander is placed on a trajectory to the moon.