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IT HAPPENED Amazon Shareholders finally realized SpaceX is a better choice for Kuiper launches

by ALPHA TECH

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Published 1 Oct 2023

IT HAPPENED! Amazon Shareholders finally realized SpaceX is a better choice for Kuiper launches... Images and Videos Sources: NASA: /@ NASA https://www.nasa.gov/ SpaceX: /@ SpaceX https://twitter.com/SpaceX https://www.spacex.com/ Elon Musk: https://twitter.com/elonmusk Blue Origin: /@ blueorigin https://www.blueorigin.com/ https://twitter.com/blueorigin John Kraus: https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos Amazon News: /@ AmazonNews Tory Bruno: https://twitter.com/torybruno United Launch Alliance: /@ unitedlaunchalliance https://twitter.com/ulalaunch Arianespace: /@ arianespace https://twitter.com/Arianespace ESA: https://www.esa.int/ Reuters: /@ Reuters StarshipGazer: https://twitter.com/StarshipGazer Cosmic Perspective: https://twitter.com/considercosmos ========== Amazon's Kuiper launch is in BIG TROUBLE, can't launch! All blame to Jeff's Blue Origin Blue Origin's boss - Jeff Bezos - is famous for suing everyone everywhere, from their rivals like SpaceX to government officials like NASA. Funnily, this time, he is just being sued by even his company. An Amazon shareholder has sued the Amazon Board - including Jeff Bezos over decisions to choose Kuiper satellite launch partners, including deliberately excluding SpaceX. It could be said that Jeff shot himself in the foot in the race with Elon Musk. The lawsuit dealt a painful blow to his company, exposing the weaknesses in the project his company was pursuing as well as making his company once again become “a farce” for SpaceX as well as the aerospace industry. So what exactly happened? How does this lawsuit affect Jeff Bezos and his companies? Why not move to SpaceX for launching? Stay tuned as we dive and more in this episode of Alpha Tech. Kuiper Satellite system is the satellite system of Amazon, a famous technology company in the world. This company is also owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire who is also the founder of Blue Origin. Kuiper Satellite System was created to compete with Starlink, the satellite system owned by SpaceX. This Kuiper system will consist of 3,236 satellites, launched over about a decade. According to FCC requirements, Amazon will have to launch 50% of its satellites no later than July 30, 2026, and have to complete launching all satellites no later than July 30, 2029. The total cost for the entire project is $10 billion, the second-largest investment in Amazon's history. IT HAPPENED! Amazon Shareholders finally realized SpaceX is a better choice for Kuiper launches...

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@frankmcgowan94578 months ago SpaceX is not a "long term competitor of Blue Origin." No.
SpaceX is a long term dominator of Blue Origin. 57
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@fattywithafirearm8 months ago Saying blue origin is a competitor to spaceX is like saying a high school football team is compatition to the NFL. Blue origin is easily a decade behind spaceX 89
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@pforce98 months ago There is no competition between Blue Origin and Spacex. Jeff is building a spaceship. Elon is building a space fleet. 35
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@jimdigriz34368 months ago Blue Origin hasn’t even made orbit ONCE. Spacex has more than two hundred in a row Falcon 9s with 100% reliability 11
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@rogeremberson64648 months ago New Shepperd went up, and then came straight down again, nothing put into orbit, and he started before Elon did.
But Elon is well and truely smacking Baldies butt.
New Glenn is dead in the water. 10
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@Vindictus678 months ago Competition is a good thing, but when your own stockholders sue you - you're probably doing something wrong... 7
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@direbearcoat75518 months ago It's time for share holders everywhere to start suing the big corporations who have lost billions because of business decisions that were politically motivated. Their share values have declined and they've lost a lot of money.
Share holders, start suing! ... 9
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@user-ok1eu4tn7l8 months ago SpaceX should charge Amazon as much as possible for any launch fees. 36
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@scottymoondogjakubin47668 months ago I think Kuiper is too little too late and will would not be able to compete with starlink especially the cost which would have to be justified by higher monthly subscriptions ! 23
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@amazeddude17808 months ago A better strategy would be for Space X to decline to bid on the Kuiper project. Since Space X has a full schedule launching its own system, Starlink, not to mention other customer's projects, the only real incentive to work with Amazon would be the pleasure of getting Bezos' money... ... 16
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@direbearcoat75518 months ago Except for arm-twisting, I still don't get how NASA awarded any contracts to Blue Origin for anything they need in their own space programs. If B.O. can't even get their own rockets flying, and can't even launch anything into orbit, how could NASA award them anything? ... 7
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@MLG858 months ago Don’t u wish you could jump in your delorean and go back 15-20 yrs to tell your younger self to reduce the partying to every second weekend and spend every spare cent on Amazon and Apple shares?!! 🤷‍♂️😬 8
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@markusanderson15178 months ago "Finally realized"??? Any shareholder who just came to that little revelation owns less than 100 shares (or feels "being last" is somehow a virtue or zen). I like Amazon as much as the next guy, but let's face it - Musk knows how to execute (arguably Blue Origins biggest problem). ... 8
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@musiclyric66658 months ago Moral of the story: if you compete with elon musk, you lose. If you work with elon musk, you succeed 7
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@chrisinshaw48138 months ago Both BO and Bozo are jokes. Meanwhile SpaceX just keeps launching Falcon 9s with no failures and BO is falling further and further behind. 5
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@edbennett82578 months ago Who says SpaceX would even agree to launch them? 4
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@user-tl5yu7xe9h8 months ago "To sign a contract with Roscosmos for the launch." 1
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@kaboozle8 months ago The one great thing that Blue Origin did was to send William Shatner to the edge of space. I wish SpaceX would have thought of that… 2
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@homelessnomad1018 months ago I believe Bezos should stick to what he knows best........."shipping products!" 2
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@demej008 months ago No way NG will launch nest year. Haven't even launched BE4 into space yet. Go SpaceX! 2
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@ArizonaVideo998 months ago The BE4 will some day be a good motor, they have money and time. It will always be way more expensive, nothing wrong with that but if money maters SpaceX will get the bid. I bet before the BE4 is prime time SpaceX will have made 1000 Raptors. ... 8
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@ArizonaVideo998 months ago Too funny. Cant wait to see the first Amazon bird launch on a Falcon 9!!! Build it and they will COME!!! 2
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@leapdrive8 months ago The question is: will Starship 2.0 launch before Blue Origin, and how much will it cost to launch each on a regular basis? 3
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@kudude488 months ago since new glenn hasn't really DONE anything yet, i would think that's a fair assessment. 1
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@proveritate93128 months ago Jeff's ego will suffocate him, and also BO ! He should rather stick with parcels ! Excellent covering !
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@gregfuller21858 months ago Blue Origin and NASA seen to have the same timetable.... Slow to never.
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@earth20068 months ago Soooooo, what exactly will the government do if Amazon fails to orbit the required satellites. Write a firmly worded letter ?.
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@GregiiFlieger8 months ago Blue what? Origin? Never heard of them….😂 1
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@ericbonds23028 months ago Bezo's could always rent bandwidth on Starlink. Kinda like Tracfone and others do with AT&T. 1
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@miinyoo8 months ago Amazon shareholders is not the same as a shareholder. If Blue Origin is combined with Amazon as a public entity, someone screwed up some paperwork including the SEC.
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@jasonmendoza76908 months ago Dawg my fucking brain hurts while looking into this, this whole thing is like two teenage girls fighting saying im looking prettier than you...
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@stump18977 months ago I thought Blue Origin was an amusement ride company.
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@tmg74768 months ago The federal regulatory agencies can do a lot of field leveling.
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@andystannard8 months ago It would make so much sense for amazon to use a falcon 9 to get some test satellites up at least. I think ego is the big barrier to that though
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@user-fd9ij1fe5g8 months ago Ego kills more good ideas than anything else.
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@oneman20018 months ago Just to clarify that the first 2 sats are being this week on Atlas and I expect Atlas can keep cadence with launches at the same rate that production of sats happens. Expect further refinment of sats in the coming year so Blue Origin won't hit full production yet and don't need high launch capability. Expect production won't be ramped up till the new factory in Florida is ready, maybe in 2025. By then I would expect launch capability to by able to match sats production rate. Once they have a regular launch cadence then no way FAA are going to revoke their license. ...
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@ericg21678 months ago Blue origin has yet to even reach orbit. That says alot.
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@arico79237 months ago If I am Jeff, I will give up on the whole satellite project stuff and focus on something else.
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@EnokNvdal7 months ago Atlas V rocket launched prototype Amazon 2 satellites to test Project Kuiper network 9 days ago.
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@rajvader8 months ago I wish somebody would compete with Starlink... If only to motivate Starlink to lower prices a bit.
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@paulboger31018 months ago What will happen to ULA? they are using their BE-4 engines!!
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@zgdafzgdaf42648 months ago Spacex won’t want a satellite competitor. AWS should see if they can just get bandwidth of starlink if they give amazon the govt contract to launch more satellites 1
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@mazdarx78878 months ago Jeff had a good thing going with Amazon merchandise, but he's gotten too greedy. He's dabbling in areas he don't understand. He's blinded by his success and thinks he's better than he is. 2
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@thomasmixson70648 months ago Would love to see SpaceX do R/D on a space assembled vehicle propelled by a self generated magnetic field that produces thrust via pole differential manipulation. 4
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@lanesaarloos2818 months ago The more rocket businesses launching the better.
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@hanzdolo43287 months ago Did blue origin kill Captain Kirk. Ain’t seen him since his elevator ride.
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@David-dl3vj8 months ago One word describes this law suit and that word isssss KARMA.🤣🤣🤣🤣😉PS. This is what happens to BO when your "leader" is a legend................. In his own mind.
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@brianw6128 months ago People are reading this all wrong. BO is counting on SX failing either through bad business fundamentals or depleted and obsolete hardware by the time BO gets into full swing with Project Kuiper. Even Musk said Starlink could bankrupt SX. ...
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@user-tq1ys8fd8h7 months ago LOL, kinda what Tesla is saying about Elon Musk! $2.5 billion for Solar City and 44 billion for Twitter! What a genius! How many rockets have blue origin blown up?
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@truegret77786 months ago What happened? Bezos was running the show. He thought he could play just like Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, et al does with the government with infinite delays and cost overrun tactics. SpaceX simply delivers - repeatably and reliably. ...
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@markusjoseph52568 months ago Everyone knows Bezo is a Logistic Guy, Not a Genius
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@davidbeetham84818 months ago Nice one Amazon Shareholders.
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@waynegrieco97528 months ago Hey jeff you deliver packages on the ground very good. Elon delivers packages to Space. Stay in your lane . 2
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@qinby11828 months ago Really this whole "speculation" takes for granted SpaceX WOULD WANT TO LAUNCH a competitors satellites...
My guess is, they would not.
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@MrBashem7 months ago Jeff is only out for himself so there is no way he will be able to compete with SpaceX. He got lucky with amazon.
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@ewlarson82578 months ago You have no clue of a major launch company that has 3 launches per month for Bezos from a company I retired from two years ago
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@SuperDave_BR5498 months ago like they say down yunder in Taaaa-hoss, jeffro bb bozos is all hat and no rocket. 3
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@bazoo5138 months ago There is an often overlooked elephant of considerable size in the room when we speak about Starlink, Kuiper, OneWeb etc. When Starlink launches started, Musk expressed projection of 20M subscribers in '23. There are about 2M - ten times fewer. Even with that number of subscribers, the quality of service fell noticeably compared to beta period. The project's profits should have been in billions by now - it just broke even, barely.
Throughput and latency will probably improve significantly with introduction of mesh networking among satellites, something that Iridium introduced 25 years ago. But with dramatical spread of cellphone networks even in poorest and least developed parts of the world (which will probably skip "landline" phase of connectivity altogether), satellite Internet is a service in danger of staying a niche product, just like Iridium: those who need it, need it badly, but the potential user base, those who both need it and can afford it, is not as huge as SpaceX, Amazon, OneWeb and others hope.
Direct to phone service and development of IoT use might help, but we might be looking at a repeat of satellite radio story, where, in the end, was room for only one player, and that barely. ... 1
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@TubbyJ4208 months ago wanna hear a funny joke?
blue origin.
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@1bluemoondj8 months ago Well he can because they're kind of like stole money. That's why you won't see a launch until 153 days from now.
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@vonmuller65777 months ago Launch satellites? They don't even have a rocket that's even ben on a pad!
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@kaydesign8 months ago Bezos is better in lawsuits then launching rockets 😅
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@fiatprefect8 months ago Mr Bozos,
what shall it benefit a man if he gain the world but lose his mind?
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@glenyoung18098 months ago Blue Origin, a company with expertise in fancy CGI and building mockups, oh and running what is essentially a giant space bungee for fat cat space "tourists".
They're also expert at suing their competitors and trying to bribe NASA into going along with their projects by offering "rebates".
Also trying to brag about how we'll go back to the moon on what was essentially a redone Apollo lander design!
They seem to generate a lot of hot air but not through their rocket engines!
Wonder how ULA now feels about relying on their BE-4 which has still to prove itself in a full launch.
Blue Origin is a hobby company of a billionaire looking for bragging rights among his other billionaire buddies while hanging out on his $500 million yacht. ...
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@HKSAR558 months ago Bezos needs to stick with is dream being Amazon...Musk has stuck to his dream from the age of 8-rockets and electric cars...I know who is the winner here!
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@csabaczcsomps76558 months ago Copy-paste need to wait to can copy some. My noob opinion.
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@wolfman007zz8 months ago Blue Origin sounds just like Starship! Explosions and wishful thinking, and red tape!!
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@edvard56978 months ago Alpha Tech you did it again! 1 pension fund = ALL of Amazon. Oh, and with the same editorializing you failed to mention the successful test firing of the 2 Be4 engines on the ULA Vulcan booster. Yeah, both engines started, ran for the planned time at the planned power.
Don't get me wrong, I think the Be4 engine will be the death of New Glenn and a major setback for ULA/Vulcan but biased reporting isn't necessary. ... 1
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@NeilFiertel8 months ago Narrative drips with nastiness. It is unpleasant and one is less likely to pay attention to the bloody content
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@ncdave48 months ago This used to be a great channel about space.. but now it's just click bait after click bait, with no meat whatsoeve.. thumbs down!
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@LivingPositive508 months ago Old News nothing new Reported. Your just Spamming your Viewers repeating yourself constantly. I'm Done following✌️ 1
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@MaxStax888 months ago And how does this make all you SX FanBoys feel inside??? Does it kinda just make you want to burst out in tears to know that BO and ULA communicate everything and that BO is on tract to producing 100’s of engines and will be flying high with new glenn. Because if you would like to cry about BO not sharing their achievements with you then by all means cry it up crybabies hahahahahahaha ...
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@joee13258 months ago Bezos is a marketer. Flashy PowerPoints selling dreams. (think why he named the blue moon lander the national team) He wants to be a Boeing, troll for lucrative govt contracts where performance is not important. Cost plus is. On the other hand Musk is an engineer. He understands that vertical integration means cost saving and a tighter design. NASA is a jobs program. Schedule and cost be damned. They trade jobs for votes. Almost all innovation is happening in CA. BTW i'm no Musk fan boy. in fact he's pretty much and asshole. But like Steve Jobs visionaries often are. ... 4
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@johnpitchlynn93418 months ago This SpaceX commercial....is brought to you by Alpha Tech and SpaceX 🙄
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@gretco18 months ago Elon Musk for King 👑✨👑 King of the World. 🤔🤔🤔🤔 3
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@saltyvet57518 months ago Calling bezos competition is just a lie. No analogy, its just not factual in any scope of reality