On April 4, Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon) announced that it plans to develop and deploy a constellation of 3,236 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites that will provide broadband Internet services worldwide, joining a growing field of ambitious LEO broadband system operators, including OneWeb, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Facebook, Inc. and Telesat Canada. The initiative, which Amazon calls Project Kuiper, was revealed following the submission of filings to the International Telecommunication Union by the US Federal Communications Commission in March on behalf of Washington, DC-based Kuiper Systems LLC.
