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Microsoft and Amazon take on new roles in Pentagon’s space communication plans

Microsoft Azure Space, Amazon Web Services and Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network are now among the Pentagon’s partners in a… Read More

Amazon readies 172,000-square-foot Kirkland factory to build Kuiper satellites

Amazon says it’ll open a 172,000-square-foot production facility in Kirkland, Wash., to manufacture thousands of satellites for its Project Kuiper… Read More

Illustration: Vulcan liftoff with Amazon satellites

Amazon switches Project Kuiper prototype satellites to ULA’s first Vulcan launch

The first two prototype satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband internet network are now due to launch on the first-ever… Read More

NASA awards millions to SpaceX and Amazon’s Project Kuiper for satellite communications

Six satellite ventures — including SpaceX’s Starlink network and Amazon’s Project Kuiper — are due to receive a total of… Read More

Amazon reserves up to 83 rocket launches for Project Kuiper broadband satellite constellation

Amazon has secured as many as 83 launches on three types of heavy-lift rockets to put more than 1,500 satellites… Read More

Elon Musk, are you out there? SpaceX Starlink internet service gets more reliable, and portable

Note: Starlink has since introduced a portability feature for a $25 monthly premium. ORLAND, Calif. — Looking north into the… Read More

SpaceX’s falling Starlink satellites highlight concerns about the future of orbital traffic

SpaceX says that most of the satellites it launched last week for its Starlink broadband internet constellation are doomed to… Read More

Starlink satellites with Venus and the Pleiades

Astronomers set up a new center to address issues raised by SpaceX and Amazon satellite networks

The International Astronomical Union is heading up the creation of a new center to deal with the complications created by… Read More

In a new video, Amazon’s Project Kuiper highlights satellite broadband for folks off the beaten track

Amazon’s Project Kuiper hasn’t yet launched a single satellite, but in a video released this week, it’s talking up what… Read More

Amazon schedules first Kuiper satellite launches for 2022 using ABL’s RS1 rocket

Amazon plans to launch the first two prototype satellites for its Project Kuiper satellite broadband constellation by late 2022, using… Read More

Amazon’s Project Kuiper and Verizon join forces on satellite and cellular connectivity

Amazon’s Project Kuiper and Verizon Communications say they’ll collaborate on connectivity solutions that capitalize on Kuiper’s future broadband satellite constellation… Read More

Amazon fires back at SpaceX in regulatory war of words over satellite constellations

Amazon laid out out a laundry list of SpaceX’s regulatory tussles today in a letter sent to the Federal Communications… Read More

Elon Musk goads Jeff Bezos on Twitter as their prolonged space spat escalates

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has fired a fresh volley of tart tweets at Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and… Read More

Facebook’s satellite connectivity team switches over to Amazon’s Project Kuiper

Facebook has struck a deal to have more than a dozen of its wireless internet experts move over to Amazon… Read More

Amazon adding more space east of Seattle in Redmond for 800 new AWS jobs, Project Kuiper lab

Amazon is making more real estate moves east of Seattle, adding hundreds of Amazon Web Services roles in Redmond, Wash.… Read More

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How Starlink, Project Kuiper and other satellite broadband providers could change society

Imagine a world where high-speed internet blankets every corner of the globe, transforming the way people access health care, education… Read More

Amazon sees ‘positive outcome’ after FCC puts conditions on a shift in SpaceX Starlink satellites

The Federal Communications Commission has given the go-ahead for SpaceX to modify the planned orbits for future satellites in its… Read More

Amazon picks the rocket that’ll launch the first Kuiper satellites — and it’s not from Blue Origin

United Launch Alliance says it’s struck a deal for a series of nine launches of its Atlas V rocket to… Read More

Florida space officials discuss satellite factory with ‘Project Kraken,’ but it’s not Project Kuiper

An unnamed space company may have picked up a code name with Seattle connotations during negotiations for a satellite factory… Read More

Critics take aim at SpaceX’s Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper and other satellite constellations

SpaceX, Amazon and OneWeb say their satellite mega-constellations will make broadband internet goodness available to billions of people around the… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Amazon’s Project Kuiper stir up a war of words over satellites

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon’s Project Kuiper escalated a different kind of Star Wars today, over the orbital parameters… Read More

Project Kuiper plus AWS: How Amazon’s cloud and satellite internet ventures mesh

Amazon Web Services and the Project Kuiper satellite internet venture may be separate domains of Jeff Bezos’ business empire, but… Read More

Amazon’s Project Kuiper reveals details on customer terminals for satellite internet

Amazon’s Project Kuiper hasn’t yet said when it’ll start launching satellites or providing broadband internet access from above, but it… Read More

Amazon vows to invest $10B in Kuiper satellites after getting FCC’s go-ahead

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Amazon’s plans for a Project Kuiper constellation of 3,236 satellites that would provide broadband… Read More

FCC chief seeks conditional approval for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband satellite network

The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman, Ajit Pai, says he’s proposing approval of Amazon’s plan to put more than 3,200 satellites… Read More

Report: Amazon joins other satellite constellation ventures in checking out bankrupt OneWeb’s assets

London’s Telegraph newspaper reports that Amazon is understood to be among the entities sifting through the assets of OneWeb, a… Read More

Amazon asks FCC to give swift approval to Project Kuiper satellite network despite SpaceX opposition

Amazon fired its latest volley today in a back-and-forth debate over whether the company can proceed in an expedited fashion… Read More

SpaceX seeks to block Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband program from skipping a regulatory hurdle

A space battle is brewing over access to a limited slice of radiowaves between several companies that want to launch… Read More

Amazon is moving Project Kuiper satellite operation to huge Redmond facility

Amazon announced today that its Project Kuiper satellite operation has outgrown its current office space, and will move into 219,000… Read More

SpaceX employees cheering at Redmond satellite facility

How the Seattle area became a hotspot for satellite builders — and what comes next

Seattle may not be the best place to put a launch pad, but the region is turning into one of… Read More