Jeff Bezos’ house firm Blue Origin has simply introduced a satellite tv for pc web community referred to as TeraWave which shall be able to providing knowledge speeds as much as 6Tbps, and geared in direction of enterprise, knowledge heart, and authorities prospects.
The TeraWave constellation will use a mixture of 5,280 satellites in low-Earth orbit and 128 in medium-Earth orbit, and Blue Origin plans to deploy the primary ones in late 2027. It’s not instantly clear how lengthy Blue Origin expects it’s going to take to construct out the entire community.
The low-Earth orbit satellites Blue Origin is constructing will use RF connectivity and have a max knowledge switch velocity of of 144 Gbps, whereas the medium-Earth selection will use an optical hyperlink that may obtain the a lot increased 6Tbps velocity. For reference, SpaceX’s Starlink at present maxes out at 400 Mbps — although it plans to launch upgraded satellites that may supply 1 Gbps data transfer sooner or later.
“TeraWave provides a space-based layer to your current community infrastructure, offering connectivity to places unreachable by conventional strategies,” the brand new web site for the satellite tv for pc community reads.
The announcement of the TeraWave community comes only a few months after Bezos’ different firm, Amazon, introduced a rebrand of its personal satellite tv for pc community geared towards shoppers. That community, referred to as Leo, will finally include round 3,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit and presents extra conventional broadband speeds.
Taken collectively, these two networks may present extra sturdy competitors to SpaceX’s Starlink, which has turn out to be the main satellite tv for pc web supplier with greater than 9 million prospects. Starlink at present sells its connectivity to common shoppers, industrial prospects (like airways), and governments.
That stated, the 2 networks from Amazon and Blue Origin are distinct.
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“We recognized an unmet want with prospects who had been looking for enterprise-grade web entry with increased speeds, symmetrical add/obtain speeds, extra redundancy, and speedy scalability for his or her networks. TeraWave solves for these issues,” Blue Origin stated in a press release to TechCrunch.
Blue Origin has spent years in growth on quite a few tasks, and is best-known for the quick journeys to house it presents on its small New Shepard rocket.
The corporate has not too long ago began to emerge as a multi-faceted industrial house participant. In 2025, the corporate efficiently launched its mega-rocket, New Glenn, for the primary time after which repeated the feat months later. It additionally landed the booster stage on simply its second try, and launched its first industrial payload for NASA.
The corporate plans to ship a robotic lander to the floor of the Moon this 12 months on the third New Glenn launch. Now, with TeraWave, it’s going to add “satellite tv for pc producer and operator” to its rising checklist of choices.
