Anna Liu

This is a pretty cool picture, but what is it? It shows how our Project Kuiper broadband satellites will use optical links to connect to each other once fully deployed. If you’re familiar with a mesh network, it’s essentially what these links allow us to build in low Earth orbit with our Project Kuiper broadband satellite constellation. Our satellites use lasers to connect to each other so that if one is passing over a place where there is no nearby ground gateway to connect to, it can still deliver connectivity to customers on Earth by linking to nearby satellites. It’s an important feature we built into our prototypes, and, today, we’re happy to share we’ve been able to demonstrate the ability to optically link our two prototype satellites at 100 gigabits per second over a distance of approx. 600 miles. It’s another important capability we’ve been able to show works in the lab and now in space, and it will be part of our production satellites when we start deploying them next year. Congrats, team, on the progress! aboutamazon.com/news/innovat…