{"id":119240,"date":"2021-11-06T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=119240"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:43:59","slug":"amazon-wants-to-deploy-a-couple-of-internet-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119240","title":{"rendered":"Amazon wants to deploy a couple of internet satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=103507\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103507\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/spacex1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon wants to launch a couple of internet satellites by the end of next year. Amazon&#8217;s ultimate goal with this project is to have a constellation of satellites in orbit. These satellites will help expand internet availability to areas around the world that do not have internet.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Reuters:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon said on Monday it &#8220;continues to invest in Project Kuiper as we approach full production launches and prepare to serve tens of millions of customers around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the FCC approved the Project Kuiper plan for the constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites to compete with the Starlink network being built out by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has sparred with Musk, recently accusing the billionaire of ignoring a variety of government-imposed rules, including several Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The conduct of SpaceX and other Musk-led companies makes their view plain: rules are for other people, and those who insist upon or even simply request compliance are deserving of derision and ad hominem attacks,&#8221; Amazon wrote. &#8220;If the FCC regulated hypocrisy, SpaceX would be keeping the commission very busy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Musk are rivals in the private space launch business. Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin has challenged the National Aeronautics and Space Administration&#8217;s decision to award a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to SpaceX.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reuters has more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/amazon-seeks-fcc-approval-launch-two-project-kuiper-satellites-by-2022-2021-11-01\/\">story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon wants to launch a couple of internet satellites by the end of next year. Amazon&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"Amazon wants to deploy a couple of internet satellites\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119240\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon wants to deploy a couple of internet satellites<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119241,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119240\/revisions\/119241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}