Amazon is preparing to launch its debut batch of satellites into orbit as it seeks to establish its own internet service for customers worldwide.
Project Kuiper, a subsidiary of billionaire Jeff Bezos' online commerce behemoth, is meant to one day rival the satellite constellation that SpaceX founder Elon Musk's Starlink has been building in orbit for years.
Those $10 billion plans could be put in motion as early as Monday, April 28 with the first of about 80 rocket launches to deploy a total of around 3,200 Amazon's satellites hundreds of miles above Earth. Establishing the internet constellation may require a series of rocket launches to get the satellites into space, but the initiative is seperate from Bezos' Blue Origin spaceflight company.
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Amazon to launch 1st satellites into orbit: What to know about Project Kuiper
- by: Eric Lagatta Jennifer Sangalang Rick Neale
- 04.27.25
- Source:
USA TODAY
- 04/28/2025
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