Jeff Bezos’ house firm Blue Origin has simply introduced a satellite tv for pc web community referred to as TeraWave which will probably be able to providing information speeds as much as 6Tbps, and geared in the direction of enterprise, information middle, and authorities clients.
The TeraWave constellation will use a mixture of 5,280 satellites in low-Earth orbit and 128 in medium-Earth orbit, and Blue Origin plans to deploy the primary ones in late 2027. It’s not instantly clear how lengthy Blue Origin expects it’ll take to construct out the entire community.
The low-Earth orbit satellites Blue Origin is constructing will use RF connectivity and have a max information switch velocity of of 144 Gbps, whereas the medium-Earth selection will use an optical hyperlink that may obtain the a lot greater 6Tbps velocity. For reference, SpaceX’s Starlink presently maxes out at 400 Mbps — although it plans to launch upgraded satellites that may supply 1 Gbps information switch sooner or later.
“TeraWave provides a space-based layer to your present community infrastructure, offering connectivity to places unreachable by conventional strategies,” the brand new web site for the satellite tv for pc community reads.
The announcement of the TeraWave community comes only a few months after Bezos’ different firm, Amazon, introduced a rebrand of its personal satellite tv for pc community geared towards customers. That community, referred to as Leo, will in the end encompass round 3,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit and provides extra conventional broadband speeds.
Taken collectively, these two networks might present extra strong competitors to SpaceX’s Starlink, which has grow to be the main satellite tv for pc web supplier with greater than 9 million clients. Starlink presently sells its connectivity to common customers, business clients (like airways), and governments.
That mentioned, the 2 networks from Amazon and Blue Origin are distinct.
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“We recognized an unmet want with clients who had been looking for enterprise-grade web entry with greater speeds, symmetrical add/obtain speeds, extra redundancy, and speedy scalability for his or her networks. TeraWave solves for these issues,” Blue Origin mentioned in an announcement to TechCrunch.
Blue Origin has spent years in improvement on a variety of initiatives, and is best-known for the quick journeys to house it provides on its small New Shepard rocket.
The corporate has just lately began to emerge as a multi-faceted business house participant. In 2025, the corporate efficiently launched its mega-rocket, New Glenn, for the primary time after which repeated the feat months later. It additionally landed the booster stage on simply its second try, and launched its first business payload for NASA.
The corporate plans to ship a robotic lander to the floor of the Moon this yr on the third New Glenn launch. Now, with TeraWave, it’ll add “satellite tv for pc producer and operator” to its rising record of choices.
