Jeff’s company Bezos He has started a rude duel with another famous United States company owned by Elon Musk where both fight for a high -rise market seeking to reach the greatest amount and capacity of operational units, and in which the time and participation of other organizations play an important role.
In this outer fight Amazon de Bezos Amagó but the first blow was given by Musk
One of the companies of the South African origin has been leading a market lonely, because Very few have the ability to compete at such heightssituation that the richest man in the world has taken the opportunity to weave an unparalleled network, until the Bezos company has finally been able to deploy its weapons.
Amazon as part of the war on Musk has put in the low orbit of the earth 27 satellites as part of his plan to offer internet through a satellite constellation, which is considered the greatest advance so far in this effort initiated by the Elon Musk company that leads the market with 4.6 million users.
Elon in 2019 began satellite internet transmissions per broadband with the 60 satellite launch belonging to the Starlink Network But a year before Amazon planned to do the same and had the Kuiper project, only that there was a delay with the Vulcan and New Glenn rockets, built by Ula and Blue Origin, respectively.
A project that has taken a year and now the fight is to recover the lost time
The satellites were launched from the Cabo Cañaveral space Force station in Florida last Monday at 7 pm with the help of an Atlas V rocket V manufactured by the United Launch Alliance company, one of the companies that has hired Amazon in its fight against the Musk Spacex.
This is the first part of Kuiper, the project devised by Amazon to compete directly with Starlink, two initiatives that point to a radical change in Internet connectionsbecause now this service can be provided to remote places exceeding the inability of the underground laying so far.
The plan foresees the construction of a constellation initially formed by 3232 satellites willing to be placed in the low orbit of the Earth, which is located at a height between 590 and 630 kilometers, and that will have the ability to offer connection to remote sites where the signal of traditional networks does not arrive.
Only time will say who is the one that will take the internet to where it has never arrived
Although the plan has already started, the Bezos company will have to overcome some challenges so that it can extend a satellite network that allows it Provide Internet service anywhere in the world with plans up to 1 Gbps Speed, and one of the main challenges is related to time.
The issue is that the FCC license was granted with the condition that 50% of the constellation was in orbit for July 2026, which is difficult to fulfill considering that Amazon has been delayed for a year and does not build its own rockets, as the Musk company does.
Precisely the ability of launchers is another of the challenges that Bezos must face in its competition with Musksince the rockets manufactured by Blue Origin so far have not been able to land perfectly and New Glenn, their orbital model, has only done so once, while the competition has a good route.
In conclusion, bets are already made in this fight between Elon Musk and Amazon, the company of Jeff Bezosbeing the first of those indicated the favorite to overcome, but in space things can be different from those of the earth and only in the end it will look more on the heights to get wherever you want.
