Elon Musk blasts Jeff Bezos, saying he has a ‘full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX’
Elon Musk blasts Jeff Bezos and says he ‘retired in order to pursue full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX’ as Amazon files protest against another launch of Starlink satellites
Elon Musk criticized Jeff Bezos on Twitter, after Amazon filed a protest against SpaceX launching another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit Musk said Bezos retired to take on a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceXThe recent filing comes as Bezos’ Blue Origin sued NASA this month in protest against SpaceX being the sole winner of a lunar lander contract
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Elon Musk is taking Amazon’s recent protest with Federal Communications Commission against SpaceX personal, blasting Jeff Bezos, his space rival, on social media.
The SpaceX CEO criticized Bezos in a tweet on Friday, saying it ‘turns out Besos [sic] retired in order to purse a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX.’
Amazon filed a protest with the FCC on Wednesday to block SpaceX from launching another batch of its Starlink satellites.
The petition was filed by Amazon’s subsidiary Kupier Systems, which is developing its own internet satellites to compete with SpaceX’s business.
Kupier’s filing is not to stop Starlink altogether, but questioning SpaceX’s plans that it says goes against FCC’s rules.
‘The SpaceX Amendment proposes two different configurations for the nearly 30,000 satellites of its Gen2 System, each of which arranges these satellites along very different orbital parameters,’ Mariah Dodson Shuman, corporate counsel for Kuiper Systems, wrote in the document.
‘SpaceX’s novel approach of applying for two mutually exclusive configurations is at odds with both the Commission’s rules and public policy and we urge the Commission to dismiss this amendment.’
The filing follows another complaint from Bezos against SpaceX – the Amazon founder’s Blue Origin is suing NASA, claiming a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract was unfairly awarded to Musk’s SpaceX earlier this year.
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Elon Musk is taking Amazon’s recent protest with Federal Communications Commission against SpaceX personal, blasting Jeff Bezos, his space rival, on social media
Amazon first announced plans for Kuiper Systems in 2018 and obtained approval from the FCC in July 2020 to build the constellation of 3,236 satellites.
Those satellites would have the ability to serve about 95 percent of the world’s population and successfully position Amazon as a global ISP provider, according to the firm.
However, Kuiper has yet to launch a single device into orbit.
SpaceX, on the other hand, has launched 1,700 Starlink internet satellites into orbit, which are providing broadband to 100,000 paying customers worldwide.
The SpaceX CEO criticized Bezos in a tweet on Friday, saying it ‘turns out Besos [sic] retired in order to purse a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX.’ Amazon filed a protest with the FCC on Wednesday to block SpaceX from launching another batch of its Starlink satellites
The network is delivery downloads speeds from 50Mbps to 150Mbps, with some customers experiencing even higher speeds, PC Magazine reports.
However, the Musk-owned company is looking to improve coverage and petitioned the FCC for approval to operate a second-generation Starlink network of nearly 30,000 satellites.
SpaceX reworked the plan earlier this month with a new request to include two configurations for the Starlink devices – which Amazon is protesting.
The FCC filing states that SpaceX is not clear about its new plans are, which goes against FCC’s rules on applying for satellite deployments.
However, SpaceX’s filing states it plans to use one configuration when crating the satellite constellation, with the second acting as a backup.
Amazon is still urging the FCC to dismiss the request, stating that relaxing rules encourages not only SpaceX, but other companies to seek clearance for ‘speculative’ applications that try to lock in access for various satellite configurations.
‘Other prospective licensees will surely see the benefit in maximizing their optionality by describing multiple configurations in their license applications,’ Shuman wrote.
‘The Commission must guard against this outcome by insisting that SpaceX adhere to the well settled framework under Part 25—namely, that licensees submit an application for a single system.’
SpaceX reworked the plan earlier this month with a new request to include two configurations for the Starlink devices – which Amazon is protesting. The FCC filing states that SpaceX is not clear about its new plans are, which goes against FCC’s rules on applying for satellite deployments
Amazon is still urging the FCC to dismiss the request, stating that relaxing rules encourages not only SpaceX, but other companies to seek clearance for ‘speculative’ applications that try to lock in access for various satellite configurations
Musk’s tweet suggests he has had enough of Bezos’ protests, specifically the Amazon’s founders lawsuit against NASA that has halted production of the SpaceX lunar lander.
Bezos filed a lawsuit against the American space agency on August 16 that ‘challenges NASA´s unlawful and improper evaluation of proposals.’
Blue Origin was originally in competition with SpaceX and a third firm, Dynetics, for what was expected to be two NASA contracts.
After Congress trimmed the space agency’s budget, NASA announced in April 2021 that SpaceX’s Human Landing System (HLS) would be the sole contractor.
