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WASHINGTON: Amazon<\/a>.com plans to launch its first internet satellites to space in the first half of 2024 and offer initial commercial tests shortly after, the company said Tuesday, as it prepares to vie with Elon Musk<\/a>'s SpaceX<\/a> and others to provide broadband internet globally.
Amazon's satellite internet<\/a> unit, Project Kuiper<\/a>, will begin mass-producing the satellites later this year, the company said. Those will be the first of over 3,000 satellites the technology giant plans to launch in low-Earth orbit in the next few years.
\"We'll definitely be beta testing with commercial customers in 2024,\" Dave Limp, senior vice president of Amazon devices, said at a conference in Washington.
The 2024 deployment target would keep Amazon on track to fulfill a regulatory mandate to launch half its entire Kuiper network of 3,236 satellites by 2026. Limp, who oversees Amazon's consumer devices powerhouse, said the company plans to make \"three to five\" satellites a day to reach that goal.
With plans to pump more than $10 billion into the Kuiper network, Amazon sees its experience producing millions of devices from its consumer electronics powerhouse as an edge over rival SpaceX, the Musk-owned space company whose Starlink network already has roughly 4,000 satellites in space.
Amazon plans to launch a pair of prototype satellites early this year aboard a new rocket from the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance. The 2024 launch, carrying the initial production satellites, is expected to be the first of many more in a swift deployment campaign using rockets Amazon procured in 2021 and 2022.
The company on Tuesday also revealed a slate of three different terminals, or antennas, that will connect customers with its Kuiper satellites in orbit.
The \"standard customer terminal,\" 11-inch square antennas, will cost the company less than $400 each to produce and provide internet speeds of 400 megabits per second for customers, Amazon said in a statement.
SpaceX's consumer Starlink terminals, priced at $599 each, as well as other bespoke terminals for governments and businesses, are being used by \"more than a million customers to date,\" Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX's head of Starlink enterprise sales, said Monday.
A smaller, square-shaped mobile antenna, measuring 7 inches wide and weighing one pound, will be Amazon's \"most affordable\" terminal for the network, though the company did not disclose the price.
Amazon's largest, \"most capable\" antenna model, \"designed for enterprise, government and telecommunications applications,\" will be 19 by 30 inches in size and put out internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second - fast enough to download a high-definition feature-length movie in roughly 30 seconds.
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亚马逊的目标2024年推出第一个柯伊伯互联网卫星
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华盛顿:亚马逊com计划推出其第一个互联网卫星空间在2024年上半年,提供初始商业测试后不久,该公司周二说,它准备竞争Elon Musk的SpaceX公司和其他人提供宽带互联网在全球范围内。
亚马逊的卫星网络单位,项目柯伊伯今年晚些时候将开始大规模生产卫星,该公司表示。那些将会是第一个超过3000卫星科技巨头计划在未来几年推出近地轨道。
“我们肯定会在2024年与商业客户测试,”戴夫跛行,亚马逊设备的高级副总裁,在华盛顿的一次会议上说。
2024年部署目标将使亚马逊有望满足监管要求一半的柯伊伯网络3236年发射卫星到2026年。跛行,负责亚马逊的消费设备强国,表示,该公司计划让“三到五”卫星一天达到这一目标。
计划注入了超过100亿美元的柯伊伯网,亚马逊将其经验生产数以百万计的设备从消费电子巨头,SpaceX,胜过竞争对手是Musk-owned空间我们公司的网络已经有大约4000个卫星在太空中。
亚马逊计划在今年年初发射一双原型卫星上的新型火箭Boeing-Lockheed合资联合发射联盟。2024年发射携带初始生产卫星,将更多的第一次迅速部署使用火箭在2021年和2022年亚马逊采购活动。
该公司周二还透露的三种不同的终端,或天线,将连接客户柯伊伯轨道卫星。
“标准客户终端”,11英寸平方天线,公司将花费不到400美元每个生产和为客户提供互联网速度每秒400比特,亚马逊在一份声明中说。
SpaceX的消费者我们终端,每个售价599美元,为政府和企业以及其他定制终端,正被“一百万多个客户,”乔纳森•Hofeller SpaceX我们企业销售主管周一说。
较小,方形手机天线,7英寸宽,重一磅,将亚马逊的“最便宜”的终端网络,尽管该公司没有透露价格。
亚马逊最大的天线模型“最有能力”,“为企业、政府和电信应用程序”,将由30 19英寸大小和扑灭网络1吉比特每秒的速度足够快,下载高清的长篇电影大约30秒。
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