One of Amazon’s main focuses in 2024 is getting its new home internet service off the ground. This new service will use low-Earth orbit satellites to offer high speed internet up to 1 Gbps at what it says will be a competitive price.
But before Amazon can launch this new service it needs to launch its satellites into space.
To do that, a new report says it will cost Amazon as much as $20 billion to get its service live. Amazon hopes to launch 3,232 satellites into low-Earth orbit to offer the service. Half of these satellites need to be in space by mid-2026 for Amazon to keep its FCC license. The problem is other than two test satellites that have already come back to Earth no satellites are currently in space.
Amazon hopes to start launching satellites in the fourth quarter of 2024, and it hopes to start offering beta testing in 2025. All of this with the goal of offering high speed internet to paying customers and over 1,000 satellites in space by 2026.
To reach this goal, Amazon will need to reach a level of launches never seen before even by SpaceX, who is putting a launch into space every few days on average now, according to reports.
Amazon has made it clear that this is one of its most important projects. The question now is how quickly can it get its satellites into space.