Amazon’s Project Kuiper builds low-cost satellite broadband terminals

San Francisco: Taking a big step towards its aim of delivering fast, affordable broadband through a constellation of over 3,000 low Earth orbit satellites, Amazon’s Project Kuiper has developed the antenna for its low-cost end-user satellite broadband terminals.

The Ka-band phased array antenna is based on a new architecture capable of delivering high-speed, low-latency broadband in a form factor that is smaller and lighter than legacy antenna designs, Amazon said this week.

The prototype that the company developed is already delivering speeds up to 400 Mbps (Megabits per second), and performance will continue to improve in future iterations, Amazon said.