U.S. entrepreneur and business magnate Elon Musk
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Two of the richest men in the world, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, are playing out another public spat over their space businesses, this time in the small satellite internet space.
The latest battle, which follows news last week that Bezos’ Blue Origin had filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. government’s award of a $2.89 billion contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for future moon landings, arrives in the form of a strongly worded letter from Amazon sent to the Federal Communications Commission, arguing that SpaceX’s plans for its Starlink network were breaking the rules on satellite deployment.
Amazon subsidiary Kuiper Systems, not a part of Blue Origin, is a rival to Musk’s Starlink, was founded in 2019 as a broadband satellite internet constellation that could provide broadband-speed internet connectivity from space. Starlink’s beta service is currently operating…