Blue Origin’s satellite internet network TeraWave will move data at 6Tbps

Jeff Bezos’ abstraction institution Blue Origin has conscionable announced a outer net web called TeraWave which volition beryllium susceptible of offering information speeds up to 6Tbps, and geared towards enterprise, information center, and authorities customers.

The TeraWave constellation volition usage a premix of 5,280 satellites successful low-Earth orbit and 128 successful medium-Earth orbit, and Blue Origin plans to deploy the archetypal ones successful precocious 2027. It’s not instantly wide however agelong Blue Origin expects it volition instrumentality to physique retired the full network.

The low-Earth orbit satellites Blue Origin is gathering volition usage RF connectivity and person a max information transportation velocity of of 144 Gbps, portion the medium-Earth assortment volition usage an optical nexus that tin execute the overmuch higher 6Tbps speed. For reference, SpaceX’s Starlink presently maxes retired astatine 400 Mbps — though it plans to motorboat upgraded satellites that volition connection 1 Gbps information transfer successful the future.

“TeraWave adds a space-based furniture to your existing web infrastructure, providing connectivity to locations unreachable by accepted methods,” the caller website for the outer web reads.

The announcement of the TeraWave web comes conscionable a fewer months aft Bezos’ different company, Amazon, announced a rebrand of its ain outer web geared toward consumers. That network, called Leo, volition yet dwell of astir 3,000 satellites successful low-Earth orbit and offers much accepted broadband speeds.

Taken together, these 2 networks could supply much robust contention to SpaceX’s Starlink, which has go the starring outer net supplier with much than 9 cardinal customers. Starlink presently sells its connectivity to regular consumers, commercialized customers (like airlines), and governments.

That said, the 2 networks from Amazon and Blue Origin are distinct.

“We identified an unmet request with customers who were seeking enterprise-grade net entree with higher speeds, symmetrical upload/download speeds, much redundancy, and accelerated scalability for their networks. TeraWave solves for these problems,” Blue Origin said successful a connection to TechCrunch.

Blue Origin has spent years successful improvement connected a fig of projects, and is best-known for the abbreviated trips to abstraction it offers connected its tiny New Shepard rocket.

The institution has precocious started to look arsenic a multi-faceted commercialized abstraction player. In 2025, the institution successfully launched its mega-rocket, New Glenn, for the archetypal clip and past repeated the feat months later. It besides landed the booster signifier connected conscionable its 2nd attempt, and launched its archetypal commercialized payload for NASA.

The institution plans to nonstop a robotic lander to the aboveground of the Moon this twelvemonth connected the third New Glenn launch. Now, with TeraWave, it volition adhd “satellite shaper and operator” to its increasing database of offerings.