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\nJeff Bezos<\/p>\n
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has announced a plan to deploy \u20605,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centres, governments and businesses, jumping into a satellite constellation market dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.<\/p>\n
Deployment of satellites is planned to begin in the last quarter of 2027, Blue Origin said, adding the network is designed to have “data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on earth.”<\/p>\n
That speed, possible with the satellites’ planned optical communications, is extreme by consumer standards and would make the network key for data processing and large-scale government programmes.<\/p>\n
Blue Origin said the network is meant to serve a maximum of roughly 100,000 customers.<\/p>\n
The reveal of TeraWave coincides with a space industry rush to build data centres in space that can meet the soaring demand for large-scale AI data processing, which on Earth require simmense energy and resources as adoption of the technology expands.<\/p>\n
The planned network adds another satellite constellation linked to Bezos, executive chairman of Amazon, which is in an early phase of deploying Leo – a network formerly called Project Kuiper involving 3,200 satellites providing internet to consumers and businesses.<\/p>\n
Musk’s Starlink network of roughly 10,000 satellites is farthest ahead in a global push to put internet infrastructure in space, where swarms of low-orbiting satellites offer \u2060more security and higher connection speeds than traditional, unitary satellites farther out in space.<\/p>\n
The SpaceX CEO has said he plans to build data centres in space, complementing the Starlink network, while Bezos has predicted \u2060such space-based centres will be commonplace in orbit within the next 10 to 20 years.<\/p>\n
\nJeff Bezos<\/p>\n
Starlink, which has reported more than six million customers across at least 140 countries, targets individual consumers, businesses, governments and, with its Starshield \u2060variant, US national security agencies. \u2060<\/p>\n
Amazon’s Leo, with 180 satellites in space so far, has a similar customer strategy.<\/p>\n
A handful of Chinese companies are swiftly deploying similar satellite networks to get up to pace with Starlink, which has proved key for remote communications and geopolitical conflicts.<\/p>\n
China is developing new reusable rockets that can loft thousands of these satellites over the \u2060next several years for lower costs, a playbook first written by Musk’s SpaceX and its reusable Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n
Blue Origin’s reusable New Glenn rocket, which has launched twice but has been slow to achieve a rapid flight rate, will likely be a vital part of TeraWave’s deployment.<\/p>\n
Unlike Starlink, the planned network appears off-limits to individual consumers, according to Blue Origin’s statement.<\/p>\n
“What makes TeraWave different? It is purpose-built for enterprise customers,” said Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp on X.<\/p>\n
Blue Origin’s statement said “TeraWave enterprise-gradeuser and gateway terminals can be rapidly deployed worldwide and interface with existing high-capacity infrastructure, providing additional route diversity and strengthening overall network resilience,” leaving unclear what types of existing infrastructure the \u2060network can work with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has announced a plan to deploy \u20605,408 satellites in space for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-259481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}