Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon are sparring over Starlink and Project Kuiper

The two wealthiest men on the planet are fighting in front of federal regulators over the massive satellite internet projects their companies are developing.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter, as his company works to persuade Federal Communications Commission officials that it should allow SpaceX to move some of its Starlink satellites to lower altitudes than originally planned.

Jeff Bezos’ Amazon has been among companies that have disputed SpaceX’s request, on the grounds that the modification would interfere with other satellites.

“It does not serve the public to hamstring Starlink today for an Amazon satellite system that is at best several years away from operation,” Musk said in his Tweet:

Amazon, immediately after seeing the comments by Elon Musk, Tweeted back to the argue using their main “Amazon News” account:

Starlink is SpaceX’s plan to build an internet network with about 12,000 satellites, designed to deliver high-speed internet to anywhere on the planet.

Meanwhile, Amazon has been working on its own satellite internet called Project Kuiper — a system that would compete with Starlink. While Amazon in December passed a critical early hardware milestone for the antennas it needs to connect to the network, it has yet to begin producing or launching its satellites.

The FCC in July authorized Amazon’s proposal for Kuiper, which the company says it will invest more than $10 billion in to build.

Musk’s comment comes after SpaceX director David Goldman spoke with FCC officials late last week to discuss the company’s proposal to move some of the Starlink satellites to lower altitudes.

In a presentation to the FCC, Goldman highlighted that Amazon representatives have had “30 meetings to oppose SpaceX” but “no meetings to authorize its own system,” arguing that the technology giant is attempting “to stifle competition.”

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