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WASHINGTON: Amazon<\/a>'s satellite venture, SpaceX<\/a>'s Starlink network and other satellite firms on Wednesday won a combined $278.5 million in contracts from NASA<\/a> to demonstrate communications in space as the U.S. space agency moves to replace its current satellite network in orbit with privately-built systems.
NASA is increasingly looking to rely on private space companies for its operations and wants to stimulate more commercial activity in areas from space communications<\/a> to sending humans to orbit.
Amazon's Project Kuiper, a planned network of over 3,000 satellites built to beam broadband internet to remote regions, won $67 million, while SpaceX's Starlink venture, a larger satellite-internet network with some 2,000 satellites in space already, received $70 million.
NASA uses its current system, called the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite network, to communicate with spacecraft in orbit, such as SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule when it ferries astronauts to and from the International Space Station<\/a>.
\"The goal here is really to get industry<\/a> to kick in with us and develop these capabilities for customers that are not just NASA, but other space-based customers as well, hopefully bringing down our costs,\" Eli Naffah, the head of NASA's Communications Services Project, told Reuters.
Each company is expected to complete development and demonstrations of their satellites under the contract by 2025, NASA said in a statement.
The other awardees include Inmarsat, SES, Telesat and ViaSat. Competition is fierce primarily among Elon Musk's SpaceX, Amazon and Telesat to provide broadband internet from space, a costly commercial endeavor that could generate billions in revenue once fully operational, analysts say.
Starlink, while not yet completed, has thousands of customers in various countries. Amazon, further behind, aims to launch its first two prototype satellites in late 2022.
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华盛顿:亚马逊的卫星,SpaceX公司我们的网络和其他卫星公司周三共获得2.785亿美元的合同美国国家航空航天局展示空间通信随着美国航天局用私人建造来取代目前的轨道上的卫星网络系统。
NASA正寻求依靠私人太空公司的业务,想要刺激更多的商业活动的地区空间通信把人类的轨道。
柯伊伯亚马逊的项目,计划的3000多个卫星网络建立梁宽带互联网偏远地区,赢得了6700万美元,尽管SpaceX的我们的风险,更大的satellite-internet网络有2000卫星在太空中已经获得了7000万美元。
NASA使用当前的系统,称为跟踪与数据中继卫星网络,与飞船在轨道上,如SpaceX的船员龙胶囊当它运送宇航员往返国际空间站。
“这里的目标是真的行业踢在与我们和开发这些功能的客户,不仅仅是美国国家航空航天局,但其他太空客户,希望降低我们的成本,”伊莱Naffah, NASA的通信服务项目,对路透表示。
每个公司预计完成开发和演示他们的卫星根据合同到2025年,美国国家航空航天局(NASA)在一份声明中说。
其他获奖者包括国际海事卫星、SES通信卫星,ViaSat公司。竞争激烈主要在伊隆麝香SpaceX,亚马逊和通信卫星从太空提供宽带互联网,一个昂贵的商业努力能够带来数十亿美元的收入一旦全面运作,分析家说。
我们虽然没有完成,有数以千计的客户在不同的国家。亚马逊,落后,旨在在2022年底推出前两个原型卫星。
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