Amazon’s Network Offers Potential For Disaster Response and Military Communications

Through its subsidiary Kuiper Systems, Amazon AMZN -1.2% will start providing broadband internet service from orbit later this year, most likely around the holidays. The first satellites of the project were launched in October of last year, and it has been under development since 2019.

The project, which aims to provide low-latency connections to billions of people without dependable internet access worldwide, is conceptually similar to the SpaceX Starlink constellation. But Kuiper is doing more than just providing low-Earth orbit …

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