{"id":13066,"date":"2023-12-14T23:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T23:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13066"},"modified":"2024-01-01T23:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T23:36:24","slug":"amazon-placing-lasers-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/12\/14\/amazon-placing-lasers-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Placing Lasers In Space!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/12\/14\/amazon-to-connect-kuiper-internet-satellites-with-laser-links.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from CNBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amazon to connect Kuiper satellites with laser links to boost space internet network<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/michael-sheetz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Sheetz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Project Kuiper: Fast, Affordable Broadband for Unserved &amp; Underserved Communities | Amazon News\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IIos1LjCgCc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0will include a key speed-boosting technology in its coming Project Kuiper internet satellites, the company announced Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon says it tested the laser link tech successfully\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/11\/16\/amazon-kuiper-internet-satellites-fully-successful-in-testing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">during its recent Protoflight mission<\/a>. Traditionally, satellites are limited to sending data between an individual spacecraft and the ground. Laser links connect satellites to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kuiper satellites\u2019 \u201coptical inter-satellite links,\u201d also known as OISLs, serve as a way to transmit data through space. Laser links are a feature that Elon Musk\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/28\/spacex-plans-next-generation-starlink-satellites-with-1000-launched.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SpaceX began introducing in later generations of its Starlink satellites<\/a>. The links help improve both the latency and speed of these networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith optical inter-satellite links across our satellite constellation, Project Kuiper will effectively operate as a mesh network in space,\u201d Rajeev Badyal, Amazon\u2019s Project Kuiper vice president of technology, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/12\/14\/amazon-to-connect-kuiper-internet-satellites-with-laser-links.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at CNBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNBC Amazon to connect Kuiper satellites with laser links to boost space internet network by Michael Sheetz Amazon\u00a0will include a key speed-boosting technology in its coming Project Kuiper internet satellites, the company announced Thursday. Amazon says it tested the laser link tech successfully\u00a0during its recent Protoflight mission. Traditionally, satellites are limited to sending data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}