LinkedIn show profiles Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has hired at least 47 senior
engineers from Amazon's LEO satellite project over the past year; many now list
work on Blue Origin's emerging satellite-communications program, TeraWave.
Amazon's LEO project plans to begin selling broadband to customers by year-end
and ultimately target households, businesses and governments. Blue Origin, which
announced TeraWave in January, is seeking regulatory approval to build a rival
network of thousands of satellites aimed at enterprise and government clients
with high-volume data-transfer needs that have typically required bespoke fiber
connections.