Blue Origin's 6Tbps 'TeraWave' Satellite Internet Will Compete With Starlink

The Jeff Bezos-backed rocket company Blue Origin has announced it’s building a new broadband internet satellite constellation that will offer something even Starlink can’t match: the fastest internet in the world. With projected speeds of up to 6Tbps for both upload and download, it would offer internet connectivity orders of magnitude faster than anything available to consumers or enterprises.
This is internet for the AI age.
Although SpaceX’s Starlink was originally a small offshoot business, it’s quickly become the company’s main earner, with over nine million customers around the world. Amazon is looking to compete there with its Leo service (previously Project Kuiper), which is what makes this latest announcement so surprising. As Ars Technica suggests, though, Blue Origin’s TeraWave is likely intended for enterprises and their data centers, rather than individual customers.
The plan for TeraWave is to deploy over 5,000 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), delivering up to 144Gbps to ground-based receivers with low latency. For reference, that’s around 300 times faster than the best Starlink connections as of early 2026. These satellites will be joined by 128 more in medium Earth orbit, offering direct optical internet connectivity at up to 6Tbps and acting as a backhaul network for the satellites in LEO.
“This provides the reliability and resilience needed for real-time operations and massive data movement,” Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said on social media. “It also provides backup connectivity during outages, keeping critical operations running. Plus, the ability to scale on demand and rapidly deploy globally while maintaining performance.”
Unlike traditional constellation networks, which Blue Origin makes clear can serve millions of customers simultaneously, TeraWave will be limited to around 100,000 customers at a time. That coverage will be global, though, and deliver incredible speeds in both upload and download, making it just as viable for receiving data as for sending it.
The first wave of TeraWave satellites is set to deploy by the end of 2027. How quickly that deployment continues, however, will largely depend on the ongoing development of Blue Origin’s large New Glenn rocket, which has flown only twice so far. There, TeraWave will compete for payload capacity with a range of companies and Amazon’s own Leo project, which is just getting off the ground.
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