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Facebook’s satellite connectivity team switches over to Amazon’s Project Kuiper

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Facebook has struck a deal to have more than a dozen of its wireless internet experts move over to Amazon to work on its Project Kuiper satellite broadband network, The Information reported today. A schematic shows the design for the phased-array antennas to be used for Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband network.

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Radio astronomers are looking to the future as satellite mega-constellations light up the sky

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There are plenty of astronomers who worry that the thousands of satellites that are being launched into low Earth orbit for global broadband internet access will cast a pall over their scientific observations. By 2029, more than 5,000 satellites could be above the horizon at any given time, according to NSF’s NOIRLab.

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