Bezos' Blue Origin to deploy thousands of satellites for new communications network
NBC News • • business
Key Points:
- Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company, announced plans to deploy 5,408 satellites by late 2027 to create a high-speed communications network called TeraWave, targeting data centers, governments, and businesses.
- The network aims to deliver data speeds up to 6 Tbps globally using optical communications, designed to serve around 100,000 customers and support large-scale data processing and government programs.
- This initiative enters the competitive satellite constellation market dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which currently operates the Starlink network with about 10,000 satellites.
- TeraWave complements Blue Origin’s existing satellite project, Leo (formerly Project Kuiper), which plans to deploy 3,200 satellites for consumer and business