Amazon showed off download speeds peaking at 1.28 Gbps from its nascent Project Kuiper internet satellite service and announced an airline deal with US commercial airline JetBlue to provide Wi-Fi in the sky.

On the video posted on LinkedIn by Rajeev Badyal, head of Kuiper at Amazon, someone conducts a speed test using speedtest.net, a common ISP-testing site, which showed an average download speed of 1,189 Mbps and a peak of over 1,289 Mbps against a server hosted by Eastern Oregon Net Inc. Bear in mind that this is a staged test, presumably conducted under ideal conditions.

"With our first Amazon Project Kuiper satellites on station at 630 km, we’ve been able to put the network through its paces," Badyal said. "Uplink numbers generated as much excitement (if not more). We'll save those

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