Amazon closer to launching satellites, upping internet reach

There are already strings of lights crossing the night sky.

One single company now wants to add another 3,200 glittering objects up there.

Amazon said it will spend $10 billion on the initiative

Imagine the number of hospitals, medicine, ambulances and PPE that money would buy.

I don't understand how one government can 'give permission' to put objects into space. Does the US (or Russia, or China) own space?

Imagine the number of hospitals, medicine, ambulances and PPE that money would buy.

Bill Gates is spending something in that neighborhood. They've declared him the antichrist.

Imagine the number of hospitals, medicine, ambulances and PPE that money would buy.

I can imagine that.

But I can't imagine how it would help "people who are unable to do their job or complete schoolwork because they don’t have reliable internet at home,"

But I can't imagine how it would help "people who are unable to do their job or complete schoolwork because they don’t have reliable internet at home,"

Good point, but I don't really think that Bezos really has alturistic intentions.

@ Ah_so

agreed. How much is he going to charge for that internet?

Should be interesting, to say the least. There aren’t even three thousand satellites in orbit at present....