Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has announced a satellite internet network called TeraWave that can deliver data speeds of up to 6 Tbps for enterprise, data center and government customers.
The TeraWave constellation will use a mix of 5,280 satellites in low-Earth orbit and 128 satellites in medium-Earth orbit, and Blue Origin plans to deploy the first satellite in late 2027. It was not immediately clear how long Blue Origin expects it will take to build out the entire network.
The low-Earth orbit satellites Blue Origin is building will use RF links and have data rates of up to 144 Gbps, while the medium-Earth satellites will use optical links that can achieve much higher rates of 6 Tbps. For reference, SpaceX’s Starlink currently records up to 400 Mbps, but the company plans to launch upgraded satellites that will provide 1 Gbps data transfer in the future.
“TeraWave adds a space-based layer to existing network infrastructure, providing connectivity to locations that cannot be reached by traditional methods,” says a new website for the satellite network.
The announcement of the TeraWave network comes just months after Bezos’ other company, Amazon, announced a rebrand of its own satellite network aimed at consumers. The network, called Leo, will ultimately consist of about 3,000 satellites in low Earth orbit and offer more traditional broadband speeds.
Taken together, these two networks could provide stronger competition to SpaceX’s Starlink, which has become a leading satellite Internet provider with more than 9 million customers. Starlink currently sells connectivity to consumers, commercial customers (e.g. airlines), and governments.
That said, the two networks, Amazon and Blue Origin, are different.
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“We see an unmet need for customers who want enterprise-grade Internet access with faster speeds, symmetrical upload/download speeds, more redundancy, and rapid network scalability. TeraWave solves these problems,” Blue Origin said in a statement to TechCrunch.
Blue Origin has spent years developing several projects and is best known for the short space trips it offers via its tiny New Shepard rocket.
The company has recently begun to emerge as a diversified commercial space player. In 2025, the company successfully launched its very large rocket, New Glenn, for the first time, repeating the feat a few months later. It also landed on its booster stage on its second attempt and launched its first commercial payload for NASA.
The company plans to send a robotic lander to the lunar surface in its third New Glenn launch this year. TeraWave now adds “Satellite Manufacturers and Operators” to its growing list of products.
