Amazon gives a first look at the satellite internet antennas for its Project Kuiper network

WASHINGTON -- Amazon revealed a trio of outer antennas connected Tuesday, arsenic the institution prepares to instrumentality connected SpaceX's Starlink with its ain Project Kuiper net network.

The tech elephantine said the "standard" mentation of the outer antenna, besides known arsenic a lawsuit terminal, is expected to outgo Amazon little than $400 each to produce.

"Every exertion and concern determination we've had has centered connected what volition present the champion acquisition for antithetic customers astir the world, and our scope of lawsuit terminals bespeak those choices," Rajeev Badyal, Amazon vice president of exertion for Project Kuiper, said successful a statement.

Project Kuiper is Amazon's program to physique a web of 3,236 satellites in debased Earth orbit, to supply high-speed net to anyplace successful the world. The Federal Communications Commission successful 2020 authorized Amazon's system, successful which the institution has said it volition "invest much than $10 billion" to build.

The "standard" plan measures nether 11 inches quadrate and 1 inch thick, and weighs nether 5 pounds. Amazon says the instrumentality volition present speeds to customers of "up to 400 megabits per 2nd (Mbps)."

An "ultra-compact" model, which Amazon says is its smallest and astir affordable, is simply a 7-inch quadrate plan that weighs astir 1 lb and volition connection speeds up to 100 Mbps. In further to residential customers, Amazon plans to connection the antenna to authorities and endeavor customers for services similar "ground mobility and net of things."

Its largest "pro" model, astatine 19 inches by 30 inches, represents a high-bandwidth mentation for non-residential customers. Amazon says this antenna volition beryllium capable to "deliver speeds up to 1 gigabit per 2nd (Gbps)" via space.

Amazon has yet to accidental what it expects the monthly work outgo for Project Kuiper customers volition be.

Last year, Amazon announced the biggest firm rocket woody successful the industry's history, and has booked up to 92 launches from 3 antithetic companies to deploy the satellites accelerated capable to conscionable regulatory requirements.

On Tuesday, Amazon said it expects to statesman mass-producing commercialized satellites by the extremity of this year, with launches of accumulation satellites opening successful the archetypal fractional of 2024 and work slated to statesman by the extremity of 2024.