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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.
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 ...
Kuiper Systems LLC, also known as Project Kuiper, is a subsidiary of Amazon that was established in 2019 to deploy a large satellite internet constellation to provide low-latency broadband connectivity. [2] [3] The name Kuiper was a company codename for the project inspired by the Kuiper belt.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to put more than 3,000 satellites in orbit to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink service.
Amazon said it had achieved a 100% success rate within the first 30 days of the launch of the prototype satellites from Florida aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.
Kuiper Systems, Amazon’s satellite internet subsidiary, ramp up launches for its constellation of over 3,000 satellites. The launches will occur on Ariane 6, Vulcan Centaur and New Glenn launch vehicles. [6] Vast plans to launch the first ever commercial space station in 2025. [7]
Amazon has secured as many as 83 launches for Project Kuiper internet satellites from rocket companies like Blue Origin.
United Launch Alliance: Success Certification-2 mission, the second of two launches needed to certify the rocket for NSSL missions. Originally scheduled to carry the first flight of Dream Chaser; however, due to schedule delays with Dream Chaser, ULA flew a mass simulator with experiments and demonstrations of future Centaur V technologies.