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Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the two richest people in the world, exchanged criticism on Tuesday for their respective projects for provide internet via satellite. The plans of both are under evaluation by the authorities.
Bezos, founder of Amazon and the space company Blue origin advancing the “Kuiper Project,” issued a statement saying the rival project of Kuiper Musk and his company SpaceX – “Starlink” – is looking for design changes that “can create a more dangerous environment for collisions in space” and generate more radio interference.
The $ 10 billion Kuiper Project will be able to provide internet from space and has already received permission from the U.S. government to install 3,000 satellites in low orbit.
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SpaceX has deployed small satellites to form a global broadband system and is asking authorities for permission to place them in lower orbits, which worries Amazon.
“Despite what SpaceX posts on Twitter, it is the changes proposed by SpaceX that will hang on to competition between satellite systems,” Bezos added, stressing his objections to the authorities.
“The interest of SpaceX of drowning the competition in its beginnings if it can, but it is certainly not in the public interest. “
Musk for his part responded by assuring that his project “Starlink “ it advances faster than that of its rival.
“It does not serve the public to hang on to Starlink today in favor of an Amazon satellite system which is, at best, several years away from being operational, “he tweeted.
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SpaceX said in a letter to Federal Communications Commission that changes in orbits will not interfere with their rivals. Musk’s company launched its Falcon 9 star rocket on Sunday with a payload of 143 satellites.
The scientific community has expressed concern about the number of objects that accumulate in space around the Earth.
SpaceX says its satellites are designed to catch fire as they re-enter the atmosphere after several years of service.