Bezos’ Project Kuiper

The Blue Origin team celebrates with founder Jeff Bezos at the site of the New Shepard rocket booster landing (Source: BlueOrigin)

Rumours of Amazon planning a “big, audacious space project” were confirmed when GeekWire spotted plans for Jeff Bezos’ Project Kuiper among public filings by Kuiper Systems LLC in Washington DC.



An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the developments stating, “Project Kuiper is a new initiative to launch a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.”

Amazon may have made a massive investment — the exact numbers of which are still unknown — but it’s one of the last entrants in the space race to provide universal connectivity.