SpaceX responds to Amazon: they claim because they cannot compete

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It seems that SpaceX is running out of patience with Blue Origin and Amazon. And the truth is that, seen from the outside, it seems perfectly understandable. Of course, the “tantrum” of Jezz Bezos is also partly understandable, who in recent months seems to be witnessing the worst times of his space bet, materialized both in Blue Origin and in Amazon’s satellite Internet project, Project Kuiper . Things are not going well and given the investments you have made, it is understandable that you are quite nervous.

As we told you a few days ago, the current situation for Blue Origin is not exactly positive, with its image in decline and some key employees abandoning ship. And although on that occasion we focused on this company, we must not forget that Jeff Bezos’s plans in space do not remain in that company, far from it. They also include Project Kuiper, which aspires to be direct competition from Starlink.by SpaceX. The difference is that Kuiper and Starlink advance at very different rates.

And this is precisely what SpaceX has embraced in its response to the FCC following the request to the FCC by Amazon, last week, to reject the plans presented by SpaceX for the launch of new Starlink satellites. As we already told you, SpaceX presented two plans, mutually exclusive, one for its launch into orbit through its Starship. The second covers his back in case Starship is not ready in time, and plans to use the Falcon9. It seems like a fairly logical request, and therefore Amazon’s action seems, again, the fruit of Bezos’s anger.

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SpaceX responds to Amazon: they claim because they cannot compete

However, given SpaceX’s response to Amazon’s objections, it appears that the company’s interpretation of Elon Musk is somewhat different and, undeniably, leaves Amazon far worse. This is how the letter begins:

«This letter responds to the last known tactic of Kuiper Systems LLC (“Amazon”) to delay a competitor, this time alleging that Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (“SpaceX”) provided the Commission with too much information about its next generation constellation. The recent letter from Amazon is, unfortunately, just the latest in his ongoing efforts to curb competition, while forgetting resolve the Commission’s concerns about the satellite system itself Non-Geostationary Orbit (“NGSO”) from Amazon. The Commission should see through these efforts and quickly make SpaceX’s request available for public comment, where any issues can be fully vetted.

The Commission issued an order in July 2020 informing Amazon that it had not provided sufficient information on how its proposed system would protect others from interference or comply with the Commission’s rules on orbital debris. But although Amazon has not submitted anything to the Commission to address these conditions in its own license for nearly 400 days., it only took 4 days to object to SpaceX’s new generation NGSO system.

In fact, Amazon hasn’t had a single meeting with the Commission this year on how it intends to solve the Commission’s interference or security problems. Commission interference or security, but has had 15 meetings in that same period just about SpaceX. While Amazon has waited 15 months to explain how its system works, it has objected to SpaceX an average of 16 days this year.»

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Quite a blow, which continues in the reply letter, and which implies, in addition to that SpaceX seems to be losing its patience, that Amazon is unable to start the Amazon Kuiper deployment and so it tries to stop Starlink. How will Amazon respond? And what will the FCC do that, suddenly, has been in the middle of the fight of two giants?