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- The low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite sector is hot right now
- Elon Musk’s Starlink in particular has made great strides over the past year
- Now Amazon’s $10bn Project Kuiper is ready to put its first broadband communications satellites into orbit
Amazon is all set to join the low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications party with the launch of its first full batch of Project Kuiper ‘birds’ into orbit on 9 April, a move that marks “an important step in its mission to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world”.
The news is just the latest in a flurry of communications satellite announcements that are increasing in cadence as the competition heats up between big name players desperate to dominate the non-terrestrial networks (NTN) sector.
