has drawn the curtain on his first list of antennas. The terminals, which will transmit data to and from Amazon’s low-Earth orbit Internet satellites, look like furniture. The largest of the bunch is even the size of a full-blown patio table—it measures 19 inches by 30 inches. That model is intended for business, government, and telecommunications operations. Amazon said it will offer internet speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
The standard consumer terminal takes up less space, measuring 11 square inches with a thickness of one inch. Without its mounting bracket, it weighs less than five pounds. This antenna should be able to deliver speeds of up to 400 Mbps,
The company hasn’t disclosed how much the terminals will cost, but says you should be able to build the standard model for less than $400 per unit. SpaceX’s Starlink That said, there will also be a more compact and wallet-friendly terminal available on Amazon. A seven-inch square antenna will weigh one pound and offer speeds of up to 100 Mbps.
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Amazon designed its own baseband chip for the terminals. It says the chip, which is codenamed Prometheus, has “the processing power of a 5G modem chip found in modern smartphones, the ability of a cellular base station to handle traffic from thousands of clients to the time and capacity of a microwave backhaul”. antenna to support powerful point-to-point connections.” The same chip is being used in Project Kuiper satellites and inbound terrestrial antennas. Amazon says the chip will allow each satellite to process up to a terabit of traffic per second.
Project Kuiper is set to be deployed to the . That release is scheduled for May. Amazon expects to begin mass production of the satellites by the end of this year and start launching them in the first half of 2024. It plans to start offering the Project Kuiper service to customers late next year. Early this month, Amazon will launch thousands of low-Earth orbit satellites.
