{"id":124938,"date":"2021-07-14T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/amazon-acquires-facebooks-satellite-internet-team-bolstering-its-efforts-to-compete-with-spacex"},"modified":"2021-07-14T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:23:10","slug":"amazon-acquires-facebooks-satellite-internet-team-bolstering-its-efforts-to-compete-with-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/amazon-acquires-facebooks-satellite-internet-team-bolstering-its-efforts-to-compete-with-spacex","title":{"rendered":"Amazon acquires Facebook\u2019s satellite internet team, bolstering its efforts to compete with SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-acquires-facebooks-satellite-internet-team-bolstering-its-efforts-to-compete-with-spacex2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon acquires Facebook\u2019s Satellite Internet team!<\/p>\n<p>Project Kuiper going strong to compete SpaceX\u2019s StarLink, OneWeb and Telesat.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The deal bolsters Amazon\u2019s $10 billion effort to develop low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites capable of delivering high-speed broadband internet around the globe, while marking the end of Facebook\u2019s ultimately unsuccessful efforts to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s team, which joined Amazon\u2019s existing 500-person operation in April, included physicists as well as hardware and software engineers who have experience working on aeronautical and wireless systems, according to The Information.<\/p>\n<p>The talent acquisition deal included some intellectual property developed by the team, as well as equipment and facilities, Facebook told Insider. Other terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon acquires Facebook\u2019s Satellite Internet team! Project Kuiper going strong to compete SpaceX\u2019s StarLink, OneWeb and Telesat. The deal bolsters Amazon\u2019s $10 billion effort to develop low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites capable of delivering high-speed broadband internet around the globe, while marking the end of Facebook\u2019s ultimately unsuccessful efforts to do the same. Facebook\u2019s team, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,219,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}