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Hopefully they don't launch their satellites like they do AWS services. By going GA with a buggy service and letting the oncalls smooth it out for the next year
by ideals 6y ago
Hopefully they don't launch their satellites like they do AWS services. By going GA with a buggy service and letting the oncalls smooth it out for the next year.
More seriously though I think the race against time will be a real challenge.
There are few caveats to Amazon’s FCC approval. The company must launch half of the constellation by 2026 to retain its FCC license, and then the remaining satellites by 2029.
That is a lot of satellites to launch in 5 and half years which have to thread in with all the other scheduled launches and limited amount of launch sites to go from.
- wmf 6y agoIt's 5 launches per year which it seems like existing launch providers (ahem) could easily accommodate.
- TheNorthman 6y agoNo it's not, it's (3226/2) launches over 5 years = ~269 launches per year.
- objclxt 6y agoThese are tiny satellites, you’re not sending them up one by one. Starlink launch 60 satellites at a time.
- TheNorthman 6y agoThat's a brain-fart on my part, sorry about that :)