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Amazon takes a swipe at Elon Musk as satellite feud escalates

The billionaires' dispute grew more pointed Wednesday in Amazon.com's letter to the FCC

Jeff Bezos. Photo: Bloomberg
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Jeff Bezos. Photo: Bloomberg

Justin Bachman | Bloomberg
The cosmic carping between billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is moving from the moon to low-earth orbit.

Amazon.com Inc.’s satellite subsidiary, Kuiper Systems LLC, filed a scathing comment with the Federal Communications Commission, accusing Musk and his companies of flouting regulations with a general attitude that “rules are for other people.”

Musk’s SpaceX and Bezos’s Kuiper Systems are before the FCC with rival satellite constellations in low-earth orbit to provide broadband internet access. The dispute mirrors similar sniping between SpaceX and Bezos’s Blue Origin LLC space company over a NASA contract to build and demonstrate a human lander system