Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Hires 47 Amazon Satellite Engineers To Build Rival TeraWave Network This Year

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    "title": "Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Hires 47 Amazon Satellite Engineers To Build Rival TeraWave Network This Year - International Business Times Australia",
    "excerpt": "KENT, Wash. - Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin has hired at least 47 engineers away from Amazon's Leo satellite venture over the past year, according to a Bloomberg review of LinkedIn profiles, staffing a rival satellite communications project with talent originally trained inside the e-commerce giant Bezos still chairs. Many of the engineers who have moved from Amazon Leo to Blue Origin are now reportedly working on TeraWave, Blue Origin's own emerging satellite communications initiative, which the company unveiled in January. TeraWave is currently seeking regulatory approval to build a constellation of thousands of satellites designed to serve businesses and governments with substantial data needs, positioning the network as a competitor not only to SpaceX's Starlink but also to Amazon's own Leo satellite service. Bezos occupies a distinct legal and financial relationship with each of the two companies involved. He serves as chairman of Amazon and remains its largest individual shareholder, though he does not personally own the publicly traded company outright. Blue Origin, by contrast, is a privately held company that Bezos owns directly, meaning any commercial success TeraWave eventually achieves would flow to Bezos personally rather than to Amazon's broader shareholder base. Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper before its recent rebranding, aims to begin...",
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