Kuiper

[kahy-per]

noun

1. Gerard Peter, 1905–73, U.S. astronomer, born in the Netherlands.

Example Sentences

“We continue to see the potential for upside across Amazon’s business segments including e-commerce, cloud, advertising, and Kuiper / low earth orbit satellites,” he wrote.

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Many of the benefits of Amazon’s capital expenditures in AWS, e-commerce, advertising and its satellite initiative Project Kuiper haven’t yet been realized, Ju wrote in a Tuesday note, calling the stock “a coiled spring.”

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Kuiper is pushing to sell future capacity on its own network, expected to hover around 3,200 satellites when it is built out.

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“Millions of dollars have been spent on ranges, tracking dogs, cameras, helicopters, fancy alarms and fences, and none of it was bending the curve or making a significant inroad in reducing poaching,” Kuiper said.

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It can also carry more satellites, and Bezos wants to use it as part of his Project Kuiper, which aims to deploy thousands of low-earth satellites to provide broadband services.

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