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parsimo2010yesterday at 1:57 PM4 repliesview on HN

They will undoubtedly sell some aspect of Kuiper through AWS. They already have IP addresses and DNS in the AWS product list, and they have all kinds of data transport services.

I don’t know if the government implication is as big as you think, as the US government has been doing secure satellite communications for decades and has already given SpaceX the contract for Starshield. So undoubtedly Kuiper would love a piece of the action but there is already competition and Kuiper is a bit late to the game.


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nine_kyesterday at 2:45 PM

> already given SpaceX the contract for Starshield

Many key things the government buys need to have more than one independent source. This way Kuiper may be just in time.

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neuroelectronyesterday at 5:50 PM

I didn't know about Starshield. I thought Starlink was supposed to be neutral.

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Percevalyesterday at 3:07 PM

Space is an AWS region, just like AWS has terrestrial regions. The AWS space region is named Pigeon.

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