The pricing of the terminals has not been disclosed by the company, but it claims that it should be able to produce the conventional model for less than $400 per. Starlink from SpaceX costs $599 for a terminal. However, Amazon will also provide a terminal that is smaller and less expensive. An antenna that is seven inches square, one pound in weight, and capable of up to 100 Mbps.
For the terminals, Amazon developed its own baseband chip. The same chip, which is being used in Project Kuiper satellites and ground gateway antennas, is described as having “the processing power of a 5G modem chip found in modern smartphones, the capability of a cellular base station to handle traffic from thousands of customers at once, and the ability of a microwave backhaul antenna to support powerful point-to-point connections.” Each satellite will be able to process up to one terabit of traffic per second, according to Amazon.
