The satellite Internet services sector includes illustrious names such as SpaceX with its Starlink, Amazon with Project Kuiper and Facebook . The substantial difference between the first two companies and the third is that the latter has now abandoned that business, selling its team of Internet satellites to the e-commerce giant.
Project Kuiper was designed , like Starlink, to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to users around the world. This innovation means for Amazon a step forward in its plan to create a constellation of 3,236 satellites in orbit by 2029, of which half should be launched by 2026. The construction of 12 stations around the world to be able to transmit data to and from satellites.
The projected spending by the company to accomplish this amounts to more than $ 10 billion, and hiring efforts have been increased at its Redmond office, with 500 employees currently in board and 200 open positions. Those who hail from Facebook are reportedly located in the Los Angeles area and include physicists, optical engineers, applied physicists, mechanics and software.
For its part, Facebook seems to have focused on terrestrial programs due to investments in the field of submarine and terrestrial fiber optic cables, as well as in wireless services such as ExpressWiFi.
