Blue Origin pitches 51,600-satellite orbital data-center network
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Blue Origin has filed with the FCC seeking authority to launch up to 51,600 low-Earth-orbit satellites for orbital data centers under Project Sunrise, supplementing its 5,408-satellite TeraWave plan and using laser links to serve terrestrial data centers and government customers; the move intensifies the space data-center race, drawing objections from SpaceX while other players like Starcloud eye the market and Amazon’s Leo/AWS could intersect in the future.
- 51,600 more satellites? Blue Origin adds another twist to the data center space race with Project Sunrise GeekWire
- Are data centres in space less crazy than we think? The Economist
- Elon Musk's SpaceX sends letter to FCC, says: Reject Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin application as Amazon has forgotten that ... The Times of India
- Blue Origin joins the orbital data center race SpaceNews
- Blue Origin ramps up New Glenn manufacturing, unveils Orbital Data Center ambitions NASASpaceFlight.com -
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