Amazon Leo has filed a formal petition calling on the FCC to deny SpaceX’s 1 million-satellite proposal for orbiting data centres using the Sun to charge batteries and the cold of space to cool on-board processing. Amazon argues that the SpaceX 1 million satellite project would take “centuries” to deploy.

Amazon Leo says: “Deploying the proposed million-satellite constellation would take centuries, even assuming the availability of all global launch capacity to do so. In short, the Application seems to describe a lofty ambition rather than a real plan—and a speculative placeholder rather than a complete application under the Commission’s rules.”

While the complaint might be valid, most observers see the filing as just another attempt to slow SpaceX’s progress and ambitions down. The rivalry between Jeff Bezos (via Blue Origin) and Elon Musk/SpaceX has a long history of legal and competitive friction, with Blue Origin repeatedly using protests, complaints, and lawsuits to challenge SpaceX’s contract wins—particularly with NASA.

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