Amazon project that provides internet from space Project Kuiper for today to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) offered a launch license. company first two prototype satellites in the last quarter of 2022 aims to launch.
KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 two prototypes called RS1 It is planned to be launched with an experimental new rocket called RS1’s approx. 12 million dollars in return, approximately to low Earth orbit 1.5 tons It is claimed to be capable of launching payloads.
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Amazon with Project Kuiper In Low Earth Orbit (LEO) aims to create a satellite constellation. Company, total orbit 3 thousand 236 He wants to deploy a satellite. The company’s plan is to serve people in rural areas and other areas where it is difficult to provide infrastructure for traditional internet services.
Project Kuiper, SpaceX Broadband internet satellite constellation aiming to send into low orbit around Earth to Starlink similar concept. But SpaceX, unlike Kuiper thousand 700It launched more than 1,000 satellites and created a beta program for hundreds of users. Kuiper has yet to launch any satellites.
The Kuiper Satellites will be used to test their ability to connect with four Kuiper user terminals designed to send and receive broadband signals from the spacecraft, and a ground station in McCulloch, Texas. The entire test sequence will be set to last only 10 minutes as each satellite passes overhead. The company said it did some testing on the ground with user terminals and 400MbpsClaimed to achieve maximum throughput rates of up to . Starlink’s beta program is 100Mbps and to 200 Mbps It offers download speeds up to
The company is also trying to provide assurance that it will try to mitigate the harmful effects of Project Kuiper. It leads to massive criticism towards mega-constellations like Kuiper and Starlink. The reason for this controversy is that constellations create a much more crowded environment in low Earth orbit, increase the likelihood of collisions in space, and make future satellite launches more difficult. Amazon claims that when it finishes testing its prototype satellites, it will burn them out of orbit by burning them in Earth’s atmosphere.
The company will also add a sunshade to one of the two prototypes to reduce reflectance of light from the sun, as bright satellites will further degrade observations of the night sky.
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