Amazon gets approval for Internet-beaming satellite constellation

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Amazon gets approval for Internet-beaming satellite constellation

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Amazon’s plans to launch Internet-beaming satellites into Earth’s orbit.

Dubbed Project Kuiper, the initiative aims to build and launch a constellation of 3,236 of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites to provide reliable, affordable broadband service to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

The FCC’s authorisation means that Amazon will be allowed to beam Internet services in the United States. The license is subject to Amazon launching half of the constellation by 2026, and the remaining number by 2029.

 

[Pegging]

Do you not need permission from every country on Earth for that?

 

[Matt91]

Does $hithole status SA count as an undeserved community?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Gawd damn, at this rate we'll never be able to get into space, we're going to clutter space so much around the planet it will be deadly to try and ever launch anything....

 

[TrueSeeker]

I don't even want to imagine how many internet satellite 'constellations' we'll be left with once all the various billionaires and mega-corps have given it the old college try just to see if they can grab a slice of that pie. And then all the countries which do not get along.
I'm not even a particularly big fan of SpaceX's growing network.

 

[DailyTech]

Gawd damn, at this rate we'll never be able to get into space, we're going to clutter space so much around the planet it will be deadly to try and ever launch anything....

Satellites are very, very tiny little small objects, most of them burn up if they fall back to Earth - that is how small they are; Earth is very very enormously largely big, when compared to them. Think atoms and a coin. The further you get away from Earth the bigger the circumference gets.

 

[wingnut771]

Satellites are very, very tiny little small objects, most of them burn up if they fall back to Earth - that is how small they are; Earth is very very enormously largely big, when compared to them. Think atoms and a coin. The further you get away from Earth the bigger the circumference gets.

then something hits one of them and you have very very very very very very very very tiny small objects, which then hit the other very very tiny small objects, which make more very very very very very very very very tiny small objects. rinse and repeat.

 

[randomcat]

My skin is already burning from 5g, now ****in Jeff wants to show he got a bigger dick than Elon.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Satellites are very, very tiny little small objects, most of them burn up if they fall back to Earth - that is how small they are; Earth is very very enormously largely big, when compared to them. Think atoms and a coin. The further you get away from Earth the bigger the circumference gets.

I know the reality, but now orbital trackers for launches etc have to be extra complicated to factor in all these new items orbiting... Size is ultimately irrelevant at the speeds being discussed here, a contact is going to be devastating.

 

[Ninja'd]

Golden Eye? Doesn't help that Bezos looks like Blofeld as well.

 

[Gnome]

Do you not need permission from every country on Earth for that?

America is the world police, and everyone who isn't an American citizen doesn't have rights and is a terrorist. Haven't you heard.

 

[Vrotappel]

then something hits one of them and you have very very very very very very very very tiny small objects, which then hit the other very very tiny small objects, which make more very very very very very very very very tiny small objects. rinse and repeat.

and they go into the atmosphere and burn up