As of August 11, 2025, Amazon's Project Kuiper has 102 satellites in orbit. I suppose that number is now 126 with the B1091 launch and satellite deployment.
Bezos is still doing human suborbital flights and has 1/80 the number of satellites in orbit as StarLink.
What an amazing commanding lead by Musk!
Definitely. The fact that Amazon has to resort to SpaceX, and SpaceX doesn’t feel particularly threatened, shows who has the edge, and will probably keep it for decades.
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“I suppose that number is now 126 with the B1091 launch and satellite deployment. ... Bezos is still doing human suborbital flights and has 1/80 the number of satellites in orbit as StarLink.”
maybe launching a few Bezos satellites is way to get Bezos to pay for SpaceX R & D costs ...
China is developing a similar system and could conceivably catch up and overtake Starlink.