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OneWeb and Leosat have exited the LEO broadband field, leaving three remaining contenders: Amazon, SpaceX, and Telesat.
Amazon’s Kuiper broadband constellation is planned to include roughly 3,200 satellites.
Capella Space will rely on Amazon Web Services and Amazon Ground Stations to reduce the time to get imagery and data from the satellite to the ground, process it, and deliver it to users.
OneWeb plans a 1,980-satellite constellation, Amazon is preparing a 3,236-satellite constellation, and Telesat is designing a roughly 300-satellite broadband network.
Amazon is completing renovation of two leased buildings in Redmond, Washington that will provide Project Kuiper with 219,000 square feet (20,300 square meters) of space for R&D labs, prototype manufacturing facilities, and office and design space.
Amazon will move its Project Kuiper team in 2020 to a permanent research and development headquarters with facilities for designing and testing its planned megaconstellation of broadband satellites.
Project Kuiper is a constellation of 3,236 satellites that Amazon plans to deploy in low Earth orbit for low-latency, high-speed broadband.
Amazon Web Services operates a ground station business that communicates with orbiting satellites.
Amazon plans to launch Project Kuiper satellites in five waves with satellites designed to operate for seven years.
Amazon must launch at least one Project Kuiper satellite by early 2026 to comply with the seven-year countdown that started in March when it filed with the International Telecommunication Union for Ka-band spectrum.
SpaceX is competing with Amazon, OneWeb, and Telesat, which are also seeking to deploy hundreds or thousands of satellites for global internet access.
KSAT USA's KSAT Lite ground station service pushes about 60% of customer data to Amazon Web Services.
Atlas Space Operations will support AWS Ground Station within its Atlas Freedom Network, providing customers access to AWS services through Atlas’ cloud-based ground station network.
AWS Ground Station began offering service at its first two sites in May and plans to operate 12 sites by the end of the year.
Amazon plans for 1,296 Kuiper System satellites to orbit at 610 km and 1,156 satellites to orbit at 630 km.
Amazon plans to deploy a 3,236-satellite broadband constellation called the Kuiper System.
Amazon plans to launch production Kuiper System satellites to an altitude below the International Space Station to conduct system checks before raising them to their target orbit.
Amazon plans to activate Amazon Web Services’ satellite ground station business as part of its Kuiper System infrastructure.
Amazon plans for the lowest Kuiper System shell to include 784 satellites orbiting at 590 km.
The two AWS ground stations in Ohio and Oregon are the first of a planned 12 global ground stations.