Amazon is formally joining the race to create a community of satellites in low Earth orbit to offer high-speed terrestrial net offerings. The enterprise has filed its first papers with the U.S. Government for approval to release a network of three 236 satellites through a subsidiary called Kuiper Systems LLC, consistent with a document in GeekWire.

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Project Kuiper is a new initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide low-latency, excessive-pace broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the sector,” Amazon showed in a statement. “This is a long-term assignment that envisions serving tens of thousands and thousands of individuals who lack simple right of entry to broadband internet. We sit up for partnering on this initiative with agencies that share this not-unusual imaginative and prescient—name for an astronomer who’s considered.
The daddy of cutting-edge planetary technological know-how,” Gerard Kuiper, Kuiper Systems is the latest foray into area-based net networking by way of a U.U.S.ech large. As non-public organizations look to commercialize space, the excessive-pace net is most of the prospects that offer the very best earnings in the brief period, even as supplying vital offerings to get online the last 3.8 billion folks that don’t have to gain entry to the net.