The Riddle of Amazon’s $10 Billion Satellite Plan" by Neil Irwin
In recent years, Amazon has been expanding its business beyond online retail and into a wide range of other industries, from streaming media to artificial intelligence. Now, the company is setting its sights on space with a plan to launch thousands of satellites into orbit to provide internet service to remote areas of the world. But the project, which is estimated to cost up to $10 billion, raises a number of questions about the feasibility of such an ambitious undertaking.