United Launch Alliance and Amazon set first launch for SpaceX Starlink competitor Project Kuiper

Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites, taking on Starlink

WASHINGTON: The first 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida on Monday (Apr 28), kicking off the long-delayed deployment of an internet-from-space network that will rival SpaceX's Starlink. The satellites are the first of 3,236 that Amazon p

Amazon to launch 1st satellites into orbit: What to know about Project Kuiper

Amazon is preparing to launch its debut batch of satellites into orbit as it seeks to establish its own internet service for customers worldwide.

US company to use giant spinning cannon to blast hundreds of pancake-like 'microsatellites' into space

Rocket start-up SpinLaunch wants to catapult hundreds of flattened "microsatellites" into space at once, using a cannon-like machine that accelerates objects by spinning them. The first orbital demonstration is scheduled for next year.

Amazon’s Project Kuiper ready to launch as Musk’s Starlink rules satellite internet

SEATTLE — Amazon’s satellite internet venture, Project Kuiper, was set to launch its first batch of satellites into space Wednesday evening. Read more...

Satellite Broadband Competition—New Hope, but for Which Markets?

Last week, Amazon subsidiary Project Kuiper announced plans to launch the first 27 satellites in its 3,000-plus planned low earth orbit (LEO) constellation from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on April 9. The launch brings long-promised competition in the satellite broadband space for Elon Musk’s 5,000-plus-satellite Starlink system, which, up to now, has enjoyed considerable worldwide market power in retail broadband services prov…

The American online sales giant Amazon is about to launch on Wednesday the first satellites in its constellation Kuiper, whose goal is to provide very high speed internet from space to compete with Starlink, by Elon Musk. The first 27 satellites of this network destined to exceed 3,200 will be launched from the east coast of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) on board an Atlas V rocket of the United Launch Alliance (ULA), of which Boeing and Lockh…