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In December 2023, it was announced that Amazon had secured three Kuiper launches aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9. [9] The Vulcan Centaur rocket launched for the first time on January 8, 2024, [22] clearing the way for the future ordered launches of Kuiper Systems satellites. Vulcan will launch 38 times for Kuiper.
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.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Amazon will begin a process to discard two prototype satellites it launched to space in 2023, it said on Thursday, following an early test campaign of its Kuiper broadband ...
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 ...
The growth in orbital launch cadence can in large part be attributed to SpaceX, as they increased their number of launches from 61 in 2022 to 98 in 2023. The deployment of the Starlink satellite megaconstellation was a major contributing factor to this increase over previous years. This year also featured numerous maiden launches of new launch ...
Despite the lack of an explicit aknowledgment, Chang Guang Satellite Technology's claim to have launched 68 satellites in the first half of the year would leave a 21 satellites gap closely matching the number of undisclosed payloads of this launch. [190] 9 June 02:35 [197] Kuaizhou 1A: Y20 Jiuquan LS-95A ExPace: Longjiang-3: HIT: Low Earth ...
Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to put more than 3,000 satellites in orbit to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink service.
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2023, including launches planned for 2023 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2023 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2023, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2023.