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Kuiper Systems LLC, also known as Project Kuiper, is a subsidiary of Amazon that was established in 2019 to deploy a large satellite internet constellation to provide low-latency broadband internet connectivity.
Project Kuiper aims to provide fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world with a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit. Learn more about the mission, launch, people, technology, safety, and sustainability of this initiative.
Aug 23, 2023 · Project Kuiper will provide broadband internet service using a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites. Here’s everything you need to know about Amazon’s Starlink competitor.
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The Kuiper Belt is a doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies extending far beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is home to Pluto and Arrokoth. Both worlds were visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
The Kuiper Belt is an enormous, donut-shaped volume of space in the outer solar system. While there are many icy bodies in this region that we broadly refer to as Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) or trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), they're fairly diverse in size, shape, and color.
Dec 14, 2018 · The Kuiper Belt is one of the largest structures in our solar system — others being the Oort Cloud, the heliosphere and the magnetosphere of Jupiter. Its overall shape is like a puffed-up disk, or donut.
Aug 23, 2022 · Thirty years ago, astronomers found the Kuiper Belt, a region of space home to Pluto and other icy worlds that helped show how the solar system evolved.
