Jeff Bezos\u2019 space company, Blue Origin, on Wednesday announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into a satellite constellation market dominated by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX.<\/p>\n
Deployment of the satellites is planned to begin in the last quarter of 2027, Blue Origin said, adding the network is designed to have \u201cdata speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
That speed, possible with the satellites\u2019 planned optical communications, is extreme by consumer standards and would make the network key for data processing and large-scale government programs. Blue Origin said the network is meant to serve a maximum of roughly 100,000 customers.<\/p>\n
The reveal of the network, called TeraWave, coincides with a space industry rush to build data centers in space that can meet the soaring demand for large-scale AI data processing, which on Earth requires immense energy and resources as adoption of the technology expands.<\/p>\n
The planned network adds another satellite constellation linked to Bezos, executive chairman of Amazon, which is in an early phase of deploying Leo \u2014 a network formerly called Project Kuiper involving 3,200 satellites providing internet to consumers and businesses.<\/p>\n
Musk\u2019s Starlink network of roughly 10,000 satellites is farthest ahead in a global push to put internet infrastructure in space, where swarms of low-orbiting satellites offer more security and higher connection speeds than traditional, unitary satellites farther out in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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