Project Kuiper: Amazon’s answer to SpaceX’s Starlink passes ‘crucial’ test::Amazon’s Project Kuiper, which uses optical inter-satellite link (OISL) technology to connect more than 3,000 satellites in a mesh network that blankets Earth, just cleared a final hurdle needed to launch next year.
More space trash because the US gave up on running fiber.
Why give poor people cheap, reliable, fast hardwired access to information when you can give them expensive unreliable satellite access to information.