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Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the richest people in the world, exchanged criticism on Tuesday for their respective projects providing the internet via satellites. The plans of both are being evaluated by the authorities.
Bezos, Founder of Amazon and space company The blue origin advancing the “Kuiper Project”, issued a statement stating that the rival project of Musk and his company SpaceX – “Starlink” – is looking for design changes that “can create a more dangerous environment for collisions in space” and can generate greater radio interference.
The $ 10 billion Kuiper project will be able to provide space internet and has already received permission from the United States government to install 3,000 satellites in small orbit.
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SpaceX It has implemented small satellites to form a global broadband system and is asking authorities to allow them to be placed in lower orbits, which worries Amazon.
“Despite what SpaceX posted on Twitter, the changes proposed by SpaceX will stifle competition between satellite systems,” Bezos added, stressing his objections to the authorities.
“The interest is clear SpaceX to stifle competition as early as possible, but it is certainly not in the public interest. “
Musk, in turn, responded by making sure that his project “Starlink “ he advances faster than that of his rival.
“It is useless for the public to hang Starlink in favor today an Amazon satellite system which is, in the best case scenario, a few years after its operation, “he posted on Twitter.
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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 pilot 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 claims that its satellites are designed to catch fire when they re-enter the atmosphere after several years of service.