Amazon Lines Up Satellite Launches To Carry Musk .’s Starlink Program

The company said Monday that Amazon has secured a rocket launch with three companies, as it is spending billions to assemble a constellation of broadband internet transmission satellites that will rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX-owned Starlink. The e-commerce giant said its project Kuiper has garnered 83 launches over five years and includes a deal with Blue Origin, a company owned by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. The race to send broadband internet using thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit is escalating, with SpaceX so far gaining an advantage over…

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Movie Completes 20 Years: A Look At Its Milestones

Today marks Elon Musk’s SpaceX twenty years. It has become one of the largest private space companies in the world and has had some major breakthroughs as well. First, SpaceX is the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft. It is also the first private company to send astronauts into orbit and to the International Space Station (ISS). It is also trying to build its own satellite internet service with Starlink, which uses “mega-constellations” of small satellites for the same purpose. We take a look at the…

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