The company said it would perform a “propulsive de-orbit” at the end of the mission, meaning the satellites would burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere at the end of their useful life. The company didn’t provide any more details about the customer units in the application, only noting that they would be the prototype of “an innovative, low-cost customer terminal developed by Amazon.” Once in orbit, the satellites would link up to ground stations in South America, Asia, Texas and four customer terminal units, according to the company’s experimental license application.
Under that license, Amazon must send up around half its planned total constellation (which clocks in at 3,236 satellites) within the next six years. The two satellites would operate at 590 kilometers above Earth’s surface, one of three orbital altitudes the FCC licensed for use by Kuiper last year.
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