1. Amazon also in the internet race
Amazon’s internet service ‘Project Kuiper’ a rival to SpaceX has made a major leap towards becoming a reality and catching up with SpaceX’s Starlink, which is already populating our skies. Amazon announced at a press statement on April 5, what it calls the biggest commercial rocket deal in the history of commercial space programs,. The tech giant reached an agreement with three companies for up to 83 launches of its Project Kuiper internet satellites.
These companies are: United Dr. S. N. Moorthy INVENTIONS Launch Alliance (ULA) which will operate 38 of those launches, European firm Arianespace that will take care of 18 of the launches, and another 12 that will be executed by Blue Origin, which itself was founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. As and when deployed fully, Project Kuiper will comprise of a network of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit, which will be able to provide....
