If Amazon’s Kuiper is now fragile, then who can sustainably compete with Starlink?

by Peter B. de Selding

WASHINGTON — Amazon’s Kuiper broadband network, increasingly seen as the last, best hope for a sustainable competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink, is walking on thin ice as confronts the fact that it’s unlikely to meet its U.S. regulatory deployment deadline.

Kuiper on March 11 filed an update on its system to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with a minor reduction in the number of satellites it plans for its three constellations — Gen 1, Gen 2 and Kuiper Polar. The new total has been . . .

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