I wonder what Amazon’s business plan is. Has to be more than “connect unserved areas of the globe” or “Jeff needs cool satellites like Elon”. Maybe some kind of synergy with AWS?
Of course you never know with billionaire tech bros, could just be the ego thing. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Trey Scarborough Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 10:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: David vs Goliath: LEO internet service Yeah its just a matter of time until there is a major outage due to collision. Hopefully before hand they figure out a way to clean up all the pieces. maybe some little space flying Wall-Es to clean it all up. On 4/29/25 5:50 PM, Steve Jones wrote: In this case, starlink is david (net value 72-137bn depending on whether you guy by starlink value or spacex value) vs amazons nearly 2 trillion dollar value. using satellite count as reference, david has 10 family members referenced in the Good Book vs goliaths 4. So when goliath reaches a 4:10 satellite ratio, David will slay him with a stone (space debris) Id like to think a spacex controlled deorbit (davids stone) will go awry and the thrusters will send it out bound, striking goliaths forehead and starting a chain reaction of goliath satellite crashes On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM Bill Prince <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I know, but they will never catch up. They only plan on putting up 3,000 (at least so far). Starlink has applied for something like 30,000. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 4/29/2025 11:24 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: Starlink started with 27, too. Give them more then 12 hours to catch up? The launch was cool as usual, but it sure looked a LOT faster than every other launch I've seen. Lots of comments on how fast it was from the public/casters as well. On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM Bill Prince <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Amazon launched its first batch of 27 LEO satellites yesterday <https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/amazon-launches-27-satellites-to-begin-building-huge-project-kuiper-internet-constellation> . That gives Kuiper 27, Starlink > 7,200. -- bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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