Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has announced a so-called satellite internet network TeraWave which will be able to provide data speeds of up to 6Tbps, and is aimed at enterprise, data center, and government customers.
The TeraWave constellation will use a mix of 5,280 satellites in low Earth orbit and 128 in medium Earth orbit, and Blue Origin plans to deploy the first one by the end of 2027. It was not immediately clear how long Blue Origin expects to build the entire network.
The low-Earth orbit satellites that Blue Origin is building will use RF connectivity and have a maximum data transfer speed of 144 Gbps, while the medium-Earth variety will use optical links that can reach higher speeds of 6Tbps. For reference, SpaceX’s Starlink currently maxes out at 400 Mbps – although it plans to launch an upgraded satellite that will offer that. 1 Gbps data transfer in the future.
“TeraWave adds a space-based layer to existing network infrastructure, providing connectivity to locations that cannot be accessed through traditional means,” says the 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 Leoit will eventually include about 3,000 satellites in low Earth orbit and offer more traditional broadband speeds.
Combined, the two networks could provide stronger competition to SpaceX’s Starlink, which is already a leading satellite internet provider with more than 9 million customers. Starlink currently sells connectivity to regular consumers, commercial customers (like airlines), and governments.
That said, the two networks from Amazon and Blue Origin are different.
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“We identified an unmet need with customers looking for enterprise-class internet access with higher speeds, symmetrical upload/download speeds, more redundancy, and fast scalability for their networks. TeraWave solves these problems,” said Blue Origin in a statement to TechCrunch.
Blue Origin has spent years in development on several projects, and is best known for the short trips to space offered on the tiny New Shepard rocket.
The company has recently started to emerge as a player in the multi-faceted commercial space. In 2025, the company successfully launched the mega-rocket, New Glenn, for the first time and then repeated the feat after a few months. It also landed on push stage in only the second attemptand launched the first commercial payload for NASA.
The company plans to send a robotic lander to the surface of the Moon this year third Open New Glenn. Now, with TeraWave, it will add “satellite manufacturers and operators” to its growing list of offerings.