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You quoted that Amazon planned to have 3,236 satellites. Yet, SpaceX already launched 1730 satellites, 1630 of which are active, with a planned constellation o
by kiba 5y ago
You quoted that Amazon planned to have 3,236 satellites.
Yet, SpaceX already launched 1730 satellites, 1630 of which are active, with a planned constellation of 12,000 satellites.[1]
Amazon's Kuiper Systems hadn't even launched yet, and they're going with ULA for their first launch, which AFAIK, is much more expensive than SpaceX, with only 9 satellites as opposed to 60 satellites at a time.[2]
[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
[2] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Systems
- tigershark 5y agoAnd they applied for permission to launch additional 30k satellites, bringing the total to 42k. Amazon Kuiper is a toy by comparison..
- SEJeff 5y agoAnd if/when SpaceX finishes Starship plus Superheavy, SpaceX will be launching up to 400 satellites per launch. Also, they've submitted authorization for up to 42,000 total starlink satellites: https://spacenews.com/spacex-submits-paperwork-for-30000-more-starlink-satellites/ https://spacenews.com/spacex-submits-paperwork-for-30000-mor...