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A year after the start of fielding the first satellite internet constellation—Starlink which began launching in late 2019 and began beta test of the network in late 2020; OneWeb began satellite deployment in 1H2020—the competitive disruption to established satellite company business models began to be better understood.
Eutelsat OneWeb (legally Network Access Associates Ltd.) is a subsidiary of Eutelsat Group providing broadband satellite Internet services in low Earth orbit (LEO). [4] [6] The company is headquartered in London, and has offices in Virginia, US [7] and a satellite manufacturing facility in Florida – Airbus OneWeb Satellites – that is a joint venture with Airbus Defence and Space.
OneWeb alone raised $1.7 billion by February 2017 for the project, [7] and SpaceX raised over one billion in the first half of 2019 for their service called Starlink. [8] They expected more than $30 billion in revenue by 2025 from its satellite constellation. [9] [10] Starlink, as of February 2024, has 5,402 operational satellites in orbit. [11]
Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to put more than 3,000 satellites in orbit to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink service.
Amazon says Project Kuiper needs a total of 3,236 satellites to be complete, and based on that number, the Federal Communications Commission issued the company a license conditioned on its putting ...
In comparison, Starlink charges $90 to $120 per month for residential service, with a $599 equipment fee. For businesses, it charges $250 to $1,500 a month with a $2,500 equipment fee.
Kuiper Systems LLC, also known as Project Kuiper, is a subsidiary of Amazon that was established in 2019 to deploy a large satellite internet constellation to provide low-latency broadband connectivity. [2] [3] The name Kuiper was a company codename for the project inspired by the Kuiper belt.
Starlink is one of a growing number of makers of small satellites that are focused on providing satellite-based internet, including Amazon.com's Kuiper, Britain's OneWeb and venture capital-backed ...