Jeff Bezos to challenge Elon Musk’s space dominance with 5,408-satellite network
https://interestingengineering.com/space/jeff-bezos-challenge-elon-musks-space-dominance
Jeff Bezos to challenge Elon Musk’s space dominance with 5,408-satellite network
https://interestingengineering.com/space/jeff-bezos-challenge-elon-musks-space-dominance
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Jeff Bezos is no longer content with just delivering packages or sending celebrities to the edge of space. His rocket company, Blue Origin, has set its sights on the global internet.
On Wednesday, Blue Origin unveiled TeraWave, a communications network consisting of over 5,400 satellites.
Scheduled to launch by the end of 2027, the service aims to provide global internet access with a particular focus on high-capacity data needs.
“TeraWave addresses the unmet needs of customers who are seeking higher throughput, symmetrical upload/download speeds, more redundancy, and rapid scalability,” said Blue Origin’s press statement.
Competition is good, but it sucks it’s just between the world’s richest men.
It would be hilarious if the great filter was creating too much space junk before you created viable space travel
oh cool so we’re just totally precluding any other kind of space missions, because these two dipshits want to clog the skies with their shitty internet
god I fucking hate billionaires
lol, yea? by using SpaceX to get them into space…? sure…
Says the man who has only made it to low earth orbit.
Will it be included with my Temu Luthor Prime subscription? I mean, he’s kinda the lesser of the two evils at this point
wish these billionaires would compete against each other in actually doing something good for the world…imagine if they were all trying to outdo each other with paying for stuff like Elon building the biggest solar farm in Nevada, enough to power the entire two times over, then using the profit from that to create green energy powered desalt plants in areas struggling with water and so on
Oh, the dick compensation contest is back in full swing.
America is turning to shit and billionaires are fking over everyone and having dick measuring contests
Leave space alone at least, we don’t need your soon to be space junk
Can they just STOP RUINING the sky? There’s no need for this crap.
I kinda want Bezos to buy Rivian or start his own electric car company so they can have a dick measuring contest with electric cars instead.
Bezos always looks like he just farted, and he can’t wait for it to hit you.
Do you want Kessler syndrome? Because that’s how you get Kessler syndrome.
Even if they all deorbit, further [seeding the upper atmosphere with exotic minerals](https://research.noaa.gov/noaa-scientists-link-exotic-metal-particles-in-the-upper-atmosphere-to-rockets-satellites/) as we simultaneously destabilize the climate system seems like a bad idea.
How different would the world be if these two narcissistic blowhards weren’t constantly trying to one-up each other? That is to say, How different would the world be if Bezos and Musk were both nice people?
I could also say something like, How different would the world be if Bezos and Musk both had normal sized fill-in-the-blanks and weren’t always obsessively trying to prove themselves?
That blank was meant to be filled with EGOS. Watch it, you.
Can’t we just nationalize star link and call it good.
They should fight it out, toe-to-toe, in space. Loser floats into the sun. Winner, also floats into the sun.
Just want to remind folks that the de-orbiting satellites from these projects add a non-trivial amount of active chemicals to the upper atmosphere, and it is understood that it will change the climate. Starlink alone will be de-orbiting a satellite every 12 hours or something, once it’s fully underway. The consequences of all that material in the atmosphere isn’t fully understood but the scientists that have studied it have made it sound important.
Here’s one short page about it:
https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2025/427_0428.html
Why can’t they ever challenge Chef Andres dominance in getting hungry people fed.
Increasing the odds of a catestrophic scenario where a chain reaction of satellite collisions ultimately filling low earth orbit with space junk and preventing all future space travel – Kessler Syndrome.
Not sure if I’m exaggerating but maybe we need to add a new clause to the Fermi paradox. That species can’t leave their planets because they clog up the atmosphere!
Both of these guys need to disappear into irrelevance
Probably just doing to to fluff his own ego.
This extreme level of wealth disgusts me. Amazon has over 1.5m employees. How many of these are drivers and factory works watched over by ai and basically rendered to slave robot lives so that this one man on top can be a multi billionaire living lavishly?
How many millions of slave hours does it take just to satsify one passing whim of this vampire that sucks life from the entire planet? This isnt even considering the 10,000s of small business owners the vampire out of business through monopoly power.
These are some of the worst humanity has to offer, yet the media they own frames them like they are someone to look up and aspire to. Slave owners.
Buy N Large satellites choking the sky, and an Amazon on the Moon
How about this? Both build rockets, and the first one to step foot on Mars wins! Take some of the other billionaires with you as space tourists too.
Jesus fucking christ soon we won’t be able to see the night sky with all the billionaire’s space trash in the way