Jeff Bezos and Elon Kasturi are ready to enter a new courtyard in space: Satellite Internet.
Amazon, Mr Bezos, who started as an online book salesman three decades ago, is now a businessman, owner of the James Bond franchise, an electronic gadget dealer like Eco Smart Speaker and one of the strongest suppliers of the cloud computer.
So it is probably not surprising that Amazon is now launching the first few of the thousands of satellites known as Project Qiper to provide another alternative to the modern world. From the orbital to the ground to the high-speed internet, the bambing market is currently dominated by the SpaceX Rocket Company of Elon Mask, which operates a similar Sterlink service. Starlinks, thousands of satellites in orbit and more than every week serve millions of customers around the world, including more.
The first attempt to send satellites in the orbit on April 9 was suspended due to weak weather on the launch site. Monday, the company is ready to try again.
When the launch and how can I see it?
The Qiper satellites of the first 27 projects are expected to move from Monday to Monday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. They will fly to a rocket Atlas V, made by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
ULA Evening: 35: 3, starting to provide live coverage at 35: 1, said the company has said that the weather conditions are currently favorable for the introduction of on-time.
The spacecraft will place the qui -satellite in a circular orbit 280 miles above the surface. The satellite’s propelming system will gradually increase the orbit to a height of 393 miles.
What is the project quiper?
Project Qiper will be a constellation of Internet satellites to provide high-speed data connection at almost every point in the world. It will require thousands of satellites to do this successfully and the goal of Amazon is to manage more than 3,200 in the coming years.
The company will compete with SpaceX’s Starlink, a service that was originally marketed to resident customers.
Although Qiper also has aimed at the market, especially in remote areas, it will also be integrated with Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud computing offers, which are popular with the world’s largest corporations and governments. It can make the business more attractive that involves satellite image or weather forecast that not only needs to be transferred to the Internet, but also to perform the calculation in the data.
Ground stations will connect the Quaper satellites to the web services infrastructure that allows companies to contact their own remote equipment. For example, Amazon has suggested that energy companies can use Qiper to monitor and control remote air farms or offshore drilling platforms.
Two prototype satellites were launched to test the technology in October 2023. Amazon said the tests were successful. These prototypes were never meant to be served in the operational constellation, and seven months later they returned to the atmosphere, where they were burned. The company has said that it has since updated the designs of “every system and subsystem on the board”.
Amazon Executive Rajiv Badial, who is in charge of Quaper in a promotional video before its introduction, said, “There is a big difference between launching two satellites and launching a satellite of 5.
When will Amazon provide internet service from the place?
Amazon told the Federal Communication Commission in 2021 that the service would begin after the first 578 satellite deployed. The agency says they are expected to connect customers to the Internet by the end of this year.
Although thousands of satellites are needed for fully functional stars, the company can subsequently provide services to less than the orbit before expanding more global coverage.
A need for the approval of the FCC stars came up that at least half of the satellite needed to be deployed by July 7, 2026. Industrial analysts say that the company can get an extension if sufficient progress is made.
Receiving satellites in the orbit also depends on the rocket launches that occur in the schedule, which may be a problem if not enough rocket available. Amazon will have to build several hundred ground stations to relay to their signal users.
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