Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, says space internet service is weeks away
The company has built its 1,000th Leo satellite at a Washington plant that took six months to produce its first 27 and now turns out 27 a week, while the number actually in orbit has not moved since July, a shortfall that already cost Amazon its spectrum priority and that the FCC will restore early if it can prove exactly what Badyal has just described
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Amazon has built its 1,000th broadband satellite and says service is weeks away, having cut production from 27 satellites in six months to 27 a week, while the number in orbit is still 396. That shortfall cost it spectrum priority in July, and the FCC will hand it back early if Amazon proves it has the hardware built and the launches booked.
Amazon has built its 1,000th broadband satellite. It took six months to make the first 27. It now…
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