Amazon Acquires Facebook’s Satellite Team

July 14th, 2021

Via: Datacenter Dynamics:

Amazon has acquired Facebook’s satellite team to boost its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite efforts.

First reported by The Information and confirmed by Business Insider, Amazon has acquired more than a dozen satellite Internet experts from the social media company.

The Information reports the Facebook employees – including physicists as well as optical, prototyping, mechanical, and software engineers – moved to Amazon in April.

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