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Amazon is building a monster headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to pump out thousands of satellites and compete with SpaceX

Amazon, the tech giant founded by entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, is looking beyond Earth for the next industry it hopes to own: A global, space-based web service.

"[W]e are leasing and renovating a long term home for the Kuiper team in Redmond, WA, which will become Kuiper's primary headquarters for research & development, as well as its primary prototype manufacturing and qualification facility," Amazon announced in"Amazon Kuiper's new state-of-the-art facility will consist of two buildings with a total of 219,000 square feet of space.

SpaceX, founded by tech mogul Elon Musk meanwhile, has already launched 120 of its Starlink satellites. The aerospace company has plans to launch 60 additional satellites into its network about every two weeks going forward.

 

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