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The company sent its first two prototype satellites into space on Friday as part of Project Kuiper, its answer to SpaceX’s Starlink service. Watch Amazon's Project Kuiper launch first satellites ...
Project Kuiper, as it is known, will see Amazon launch thousands of satellites into low Earth orbit to form a constellation similar to SpaceX’s Starlink internet network.
The first two prototype satellites for Amazon’s network, called Project Kuiper, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 2:06 p.m. ET Friday.
Amazon says Project Kuiper needs a total of 3,236 satellites to be complete, and based on that number, the Federal Communications Commission issued the company a license conditioned on its putting ...
Vulcan Centaur is a heavy-lift launch vehicle [a] developed and operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA). It is a two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle consisting of the Vulcan first stage and the Centaur second stage.
Project Kuiper aims to put thousands of satellites into orbit. ULA is Amazon's first launch provider. [42] Two Kuiper test satellites were launched on Atlas V in 2023 because their originally-contracted launch vehicles were not available on time. The remaining eight Atlas V Kuiper launches will each carry a full payload of Kuiper satellites.
The Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance is set to loft the first several batches of Kuiper satellites aboard its Atlas 5 and the company's upcoming Vulcan rocket.
The first two prototype satellites "KuiperSat P1" and "KuiperSat P2" were launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on October 6, 2023. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Previously, Amazon had planned its initial ride to space on launch vehicles that were also still in development, including ABL Space Systems on their RS1 rocket that was expected by late ...