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The two AWS ground stations in Ohio and Oregon are the first of a planned 12 global ground stations.
AWS plans to increase the number of ground stations beyond 12 and to increase the number of antennas at each location after 2019.
AWS has not committed to supporting the proposed low Earth orbit system of more than 3,000 satellites.
Amazon Web Services set a goal of completing 12 ground stations by the end of 2019.
Verge will be operational in 2020 and will downlink data for a pay-by-the-minute service while pushing that data to the Amazon Web Services cloud.
AWS is building a network of ground stations to communicate with satellites and ensure secure communications systems.
Shayn Hawthorne is a senior manager at Amazon Web Services and leads the AWS Ground Station program.
Christine highlighted that companies like SpaceX, OneWeb, and Amazon are working on megaconstellations in low Earth orbit (LEO) to provide inexpensive broadband services.
Amazon has not disclosed who would build the Kuiper Systems satellites or when they would be launched.
Jeff Bezos sells $1,000,000,000 in Amazon stock annually to fund Blue Origin.
After the divorce settlement, Jeff Bezos’ remaining Amazon shares were estimated at a value of $108,000,000,000.
Atlas Space Operations collaborates with Amazon Web Services as its baseline solution for providing a fully managed ground station-as-a-service.
AWS Ground Station will use a network of ground stations called Verge developed by Lockheed Martin.
Amazon Web Services presented the AWS Ground Station partnership at the AWS re:Invent conference on 2018-11-27 in Las Vegas.
Amazon Web Services and Lockheed Martin partnered to provide satellite ground stations as a service under the name AWS Ground Station.
AWS plans to expand the AWS Ground Station network globally and to include X-band frequencies.
Amazon partnered with Lockheed Martin to provide low-cost ground infrastructure to satellite startups under a venture called AWS Ground Station.
Amazon operates two ground stations in operation and plans to complete 12 ground stations in 2019, all co-located with AWS data centers.
AWS Ground Station will offer services on a pay-as-you-go basis similar to other Amazon cloud services.
Amazon Web Services became an Iridium customer in 2018, which Iridium expects will expand its Internet-of-Things business among Amazon partners.