Meet Rajeev Badyal, Man Who Heads Amazon’s New Internet Satellite Project
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Rajeev Badyal was born in India and spent much of his childhood in Kuwait.For a harrowing hour or two, after Amazon.com Inc. launched its first satellites, it appeared the company might have lost one of them. The two prototypes had entered orbit over the Atlantic Ocean at 2:24 p.m. Eastern on October 6. An Amazon antenna on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius made contact with both, but during a subsequent handoff to another station, only one vehicle checked in. Amazon scanned the sky behind the first satellite for a signal from the second one but heard silence. The incident threatened to kill the mood for employees who'd gathered to celebrate the launch at Postdoc Brewing, not far from Amazon's Seattle-area space operation. The team had spent years building satellites from scrat...