By James Pero For The Dailymail
Published: 20:05 BST, 4 April 2019 | Updated: 20:06 BST, 4 April 2019
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New filings from e-commerce giant Amazon show that the company's next frontier is the final frontier, as it gears up to launch thousands of Internet-providing satellites into space.
Amazon has unveiled its intentions behind a mysterious plan, dubbed Project Kuiper, initially announced last September, according to GeekWire.
The goal is to provide high-speed broadband internet access to unserved and underserved areas around the globe, according to patents published with the International Telecommunications Union.
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New filings from e-commerce giant Amazon show that the company's next frontier is the final frontier, as it gears up to launch thousands of Internet-providing satellites into space
Amazon confirmed that its mysterious Project Kuiper will aim to position the e-commerce giant as a global ISP.
In the coming years it plans to launch more than 3,000 satellites into orbit where they will beam high-speed internet down to Earth.
The satellites would enter low-Earth orbit where they will be able to deliver high-speed, low-latency internet to million of people.
Competition for the project has already arisen in the form of SpaceX's Starlink program and the company OneWeb, which launched six satellites this year.
OneWeb's low-Earth orbiting satellite's are capable of delivering up to 500 MBPS per user.
By launching a total of 3,236 satellites into low-orbit around the Earth, Project Kuiper would be able to serve about 95 percent of the world's population and
