Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit

Atlas launches first operational Project Kuiper satellites

An Atlas 5 successfully launched April 28 the long-delayed first set of operational Project Kuiper broadband satellites for Amazon. The post Atlas launches first operational Project Kuiper satellites appeared first on SpaceNews.

Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit

: One launch down, 80-plus to go, for a pittance compared to planned AWS spending

Amazon successfully launches first Kuiper satellites, challenges SpaceX’s Starlink

Amazon on Monday launched its first 27 Project Kuiper satellites into low Earth orbit, marking the tech giant’s official entry into the satellite internet market dominated by SpaceX’s Starlink. The satellites lifted off aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida just after 7 pm ET. The successful mission follows a weather delay and represents a key milestone in Amazon’s $10 billion pla…

ULA launches first production Amazon Kuiper satellites on Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

United Launch Alliance launches their Atlas V 551 rocket on Monday, April 28, 2025 with the first batch of Project Kuiper satellites for Amazon towards low Earth orbit from SLC-41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Against the setting Sun, United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket thundered off the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force State to begin the flight of the first production satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper…

Amazon Project Kuiper Lifts Off - Inside Towers

UPDATE  United Launch Alliance (ULA), headquartered in Centennial, CO, conducted the first full-scale mission for Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Project Kuiper constellation on Monday evening. This launch is the first deployment phase of Amazon’s competitor to Starlink and OneWeb, Via Satellite reported. ULA launched 27 satellites in the Kuiper-1 mission on an Atlas V 551 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:01 p.m. EDT. The M…

The first 27 satellites leaving the Amazon assembly line took off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket