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This is pretty dirty from SpaceX. They make this about Amazon by saying Kuiper ("Amazon"). Just because SpaceX calls them "Amazon" in their press release does not make this about Amazon.

Or am I missing something and is this really an Amazon endeavor?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Systems

"Kuiper Systems LLC is a subsidiary of Amazon that was set up in 2019 to deploy a large broadband satellite internet constellation to provide broadband internet connectivity."

It's literally a fully-owned subsidiary of $AMZN. I'm not even a Musk fanboy but clearly this is 100% appropriate.

They could have just said Kuiper ("Kuiper") or Amazon ("Amazon"). The parentheses imply that they choose themselves how they call it from then on, which they are indeed free to do. But it's clear the thing officially is called Kuiper, but they choose to refer to it as Amazon. Which is understandable from a PR point of view, but I still think it's a little dirty. I mean, get that whole Amazon webshop 'down' also, while we're at it.

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