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We know a little more about Amazon's satellites


Amazon’s Kuiper satellites look nothing like SpaceX’s Starlink.

Ars asked Amazon officials multiple times over the last two years if the company would release pictures of the satellites in production, undergoing launch preparations, or even an artist's illustration. With their solar arrays folded up for launch, they look much like OneWeb's satellites, and a lot different than Starlinks, which have a flatter design to stack one on top of another inside SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. This frame from a SpaceX video shows a stack of Starlink Internet satellites attached to the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, moments after jettison of the launcher's payload fairing.

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