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Amazon Web Services built a network of six ground stations instead of the 12 it expected to complete by the end of 2019.
Amazon Web Services built a ground station in Sweden to serve polar-orbiting satellites operated by remote-sensing companies.
Amazon Web Services set a goal of completing 12 ground stations by the end of 2019 when it first announced plans to provide turnkey ground-station services to space startups.
One future Amazon Web Services ground station will be a high-latitude site scheduled for completion later 2020.
Amazon Web Services operates two ground stations in the United States and one ground station in Ireland.
The variety of national regulatory regimes governing future sites makes it difficult to predict when Amazon Web Services’ planned ground stations will be completed and activated.
Amazon Web Services still plans to build 12 ground stations and potentially more while deciding many future sites in coordination with customers.
Amazon plans for Kuiper to expand 0.004 kg and 0.005 kg coverage areas by enabling low-latency backhaul services for cellular network operators.
Amazon plans to operate Project Kuiper in three orbital layers at approximately 590 km, 610 km, and 630 km.
Amazon must orbit the full Kuiper constellation by 2029-07-30 under FCC conditions.
Amazon anticipates deploying Project Kuiper satellites in five waves and plans to start service once the first wave of 578 satellites is in orbit.
Amazon will invest $10,000,000,000 in Project Kuiper.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved Amazon’s request on 2020-07-30 to operate a constellation of roughly 3,200 internet satellites in low Earth orbit.
Amazon Web Services operates a ground station business focused on connecting satellites in low Earth orbit.
Amazon is establishing a Project Kuiper research and development headquarters in Redmond, Washington with laboratories, prototype manufacturing facilities, and office and design space.
Amazon must launch at least 50% of its Kuiper satellites by 2026-07-30 to maintain its FCC authorization.
Amazon plans to open a Redmond office for its Web Services division in 2021 with capacity for more than 600 employees.
Microsoft Azure won the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud services contract last year, a contract worth up to $10,000,000,000.
Aerospace and Satellite Solutions builds off AWS Ground Station, a related AWS business unveiled in 2018 focused on providing communications services to satellites using a network of ground antennas.
Clint Crosier, a retired U.S. Air Force Major General who helped establish and provided early guidance to the U.S. Space Force, will lead AWS’s Aerospace and Satellite Solutions division.