WASHINGTON — **Amazon’s Kuiper** broadband network, increasingly seen as the last, best hope for a sustainable competitor to **SpaceX’s Starlink**, is walking on thin ice as confronts the fact that it’s unlikely to meet its U.S. regulatory deployment deadline.
Kuiper on March 11 filed an update on its system to the **U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)** with a minor reduction in the number of satellites it plans for its three constellations — Gen 1, Gen 2 and Kuiper Polar. The new total has been . . .
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