Bezos announces his satellite communications network

Elon Musk’s Starlink, which has dominated the satellite internet market, will face competition from Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin, which revealed its own satellite communications network on Wednesday.

According to Blue Origin, the communications network, TeraWave, will serve government, business, and data center users with 5,408 linked satellites in low Earth orbit.

According to a statement from Blue Origin, the TeraWave satellite network will go live in the fourth quarter of 2027.

According to Blue Origin, the satellite network will enable data speeds of up to 6 terabits per second anywhere on Earth, which is thousands of times faster than the average US household internet bandwidth.

Tens of thousands of users will be served by Blue Origin’s satellite network once it is operational. In December 2025, Starlink had nine million users. Additionally, compared to Starlink, which deployed roughly 9,300 satellites last month, TeraWave’s architecture is probably going to have a lot fewer satellites.

Shortly after Amazon renamed its satellite communications network from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo, Bezos’ aerospace business made the news. Next month, the first batch of Amazon Leo satellites—32 in total—will be put into orbit. This deployment will supplement the 27 satellites launched under the Project Kuiper designation in April of last year. Leo will have about 3,000 satellites in its constellation.