New Delhi: Blue Origin has announced the TeraWave constellation, capable of providing 6Tbps data speeds anywhere on the Earth. The constellation has been
designed to service enterprise, data centre and government users who require reliable connectivity for critical operations, especially in remote regions where traditional networks cannot reach. The TeraWave constellation cosnsits of 5,408 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). The satellites are also optically interconnected, forming a mesh network. The multi-orbit design allows for high-speed throughput links between global hubs and distributed multigigabit user connections in remote, rural and suburban areas where fibre paths are costly, technically infeasible or slow to deploy.
The TeraWave user and gateway terminals can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world, and interface directly with existing high-capacity infrastructure, providing additional route diversity and strengthening the overall resilience of the network. TeraWave address the unmet requirements of customers who need high throughput, symmetrical upload and download speeds, redundancy and rapid scalability. It complements fibre backhaul with a unique architecture that delivers both performance radio frequency and optical connectivity. The 5,280 LEO satellites can provide up to 144 Gbps of data, while the 128 MEO satellites can support speeds up to 6 Tbps. The deployment of the TeraWave constellation will commence in Q4, 2027.
TeraWave offers additional bandwidth
Conventional constellations in Low Earth Orbit can support download speeds up to 1 Gbps and upload speeds up to 400 Mbps. TeraWave will be able to support RF download speeds up to 144 Gbps and optical download speeds up to six Tbps, as well as RF upload speeds of 144 Gbps, along with optical upload speeds up to six Tbps. Terawave is designed as a symmetrical constellation, offering the same download and upload spees. TeraWave can only support about 100,000 customers, while current LEO constellations can provide connectivity to many more. The coverage for the constellation will be global.
