Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor

BonerWiener

Non pay-wall link: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/amazon-leo-space-internet...

gonzalohm

How much market is out there for satellite Internet? I don't think anyone with access to wired ISP are going to choose satellites over wired. Plus 5G mobile Internet is becoming pretty good too. Maybe I'm missing something but to me it doesn't sound like a good long term business. Plus I think we should be invested in installing more optic fiber. The US is laughably behind other countries on that

bill_mcgonigle

Make a commitment to forbid lethal use of this service and I'll subscribe for backup/disaster preparedness. It would be a huge selling point over the competition which is allegedly being used in terroristic attacks. Algorithm: one (or a group of) terminals reaches altitude headed from one warring region to another. Disable its transit data, keep watching telemetry. A single modest modern CPU could process the data stream from millions of devices, though it probably makes sense to have a coprocessor at each downlink location, with minimum handoff data near hextile boundaries.

ChrisArchitect

Source: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/projec...

xnx

Is this PR to distract from them losing 55 satellites in the launchpad explosion and/or to confirm that they met whatever hurdle the US required for them to keep operating?