EMERGING TECH Amazon buys Facebook’s satellite Internet experts to boost its own plans for a low-Earth orbit broadband service
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Amazon.com Inc.’s space ambitions got a big boost today as it acquired more than a dozen satellite internet experts from it rival Facebook Inc.
The talent acquisition was completed in April but only reported today by The Information. That report was later confirmed by spokespeople from both companies.
The former Facebook engineers will provide a boost Amazon’s $10 billion effort to build and send to orbit hundreds of satellites that can deliver high-speed broadband Internet connectivity across the globe. Amazon’s plans to enter the satellite constellation race were announced in 2019. Through Project Kuiper, as the initiative is called, the company aims to deploy 3,236 internet satellites in low-Earth orbit.
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