Fuzzy images are our first look at Amazon's super-secret satellites

Duplicate of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877907 ("We know a little more about Amazon's satellites (arstechnica.com)" — 110 comments)

Honest question: will adding all these satellites sending signals to each other impede the ability for researchers to 'listen' to deep-space events?

no, but it may make a shorter ping time for intra exchange hft

Yes. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00792-y

So was this captured from an unencrypted downlink video feed by a 3rd party?

> This changed with a video Amazon posted on social media Friday, giving space enthusiasts and prospective Kuiper customers their first look at the real satellites.

It's right there in the article.