Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year

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Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year, according to Ars Technica. "If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it." The world's largest retailer wants to sell you something else—Internet from space.

Amazon has been developing a constellation (a group of satellites working together) of satellites to deliver broadband Internet from low-Earth orbit for the better part of a decade, and the company is just about ready to pull back the curtain. It is entering a market that SpaceX, with its Starlink Internet, has dominated for the last half-decade. Broadband Internet from orbit has proven broadly useful for a lot of purposes, from video games to commerce to warfighting.