News Summary

• Blue Origin, the space conglomerate founded by Amazon chair Jeff Bezos, has asked the U.S. government for permission to launch a network of more than 50,000 satellites that will act as a data center.
• The filing did not describe its plans for the satellites in detail, so it’s hard to know how much computing power the company is aiming to generate in space.
• It does note that Blue Origin plans to use another satellite constellation it is seeking to build, called TeraWave, as a high-throughput communications backbone for the data satellites.