Blue Origin enters the communications satellite competition head-on

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The space company Blue Origin, founded by American billionaire Jeff Bezos, has announced an ambitious project to enter the communications satellite constellation market, currently dominated by SpaceX, the company of its rival Elon Musk. According to Reuters, Blue Origin plans to launch 5,408 satellites into low-Earth orbit, which will form a network dedicated to high-speed communications services for data centers, governments and the private sector. The deployment of the network, called