Jeff Bezos’ space company announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space, jumping into a market dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin on Wednesday announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into a satellite constellation market dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Blue Origin, the private space company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is launching a satellite communication service. This marks a challenge to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, intensifying competition in private space development for communication networks and data center infrastructure.

Jeff Bezos just dropped another satellite bomb. Blue Origin is launching TeraWave, a broadband network built with 5,408 satellites to compete directly with Elon Musk’s Starlink and Bezos’ old empire,

Blue Origin will be focused on businesses and governments, while Starlink also offers services to individual customers.

Jeff Bezos’ space company plans to build a satellite network that would compete with SpaceX’s Starlink business—as well as the satellite division Amazon.com has been developing. Bezos’ Blue Origin said Wednesday it aims to start deploying an envisioned 5,

The TeraWave plan coincides with a rush to build data centres in space that can meet the soaring demand for large-scale AI data processing.