Amazon signs a SpaceX contract for three Falcon 9 rocket launches, set to begin in mid-2025, to help put its Project Kuiper satellite constellation into orbit
Bloomberg
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Discussion
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Constantine Singer
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Blue Horizons really blue today.
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@mattmday
Matt Day
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Amazon dot com paying internet-from-space rival SpaceX to launch some of its satellites is a nerdier version of Costco getting its lettuce to stores on Walmart trucks. or your better terrestrial economy analogy. our updated story, w/@lorengrush: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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Matt Mullenweg
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Some may see this as an ouch, but props to Amazon for burying the hatchet and signing with SpaceX, I'm sure that wasn't easy. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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Ashlee Vance
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So, Netflix runs on Amazon's cloud and competes with them on movies and Amazon uses SpaceX's rockets and competes with them on space internet. It's turtles all the way up [image]
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Amazon secures 3 launches with SpaceX to support Project Kuiper deployment