Amazon launches its first satellites to compete for Starlink

The internet constellation at Amazon Kuiper BroadBand Internet started crystallizing, with the first batch of satellites It was shipped and published in space on Monday. The launch is the first out of 80 years in which Amazon lined up to take all 3,236 satellites of Kuper satellites to the low-Earth orbit as part of a retail-raising giant efforts to compete with Starlink- Internet-controlled Internet business from Spacex.

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) ATLAS V, which holds the first 27 satellites in the Amazon from the Kuiper from Florida Cape Canaveral Space Force at 7 pm on April 28, and after The first attempt was cleaned on April 9 Because of the weak weather conditions.

“Although this is the first step on a much longer trip to launch the rest of the lower Earth orbit constellation, it represents an incredible amount of invention and hard work,” The CEO of Amazon Andy Jassi said on X. “I am really proud of the team team.”

Kuper satellites have been published 280 miles (450 km) above Earth, and Amazon confirmed that satellites are successfully activated and communicated with terrestrial systems. If everything is planning, the Amazon said it expects to start providing the Internet online “high -speed and kidney” for customers “later this year.

“This launch represents the first step towards the future of our partnership and the increase in the rhythm of the launch.” The CEO of Ula Tory Bruuno said in the post -launch statement. “We have steadily amended the launch facilities at Cape Canaveral to support the ability of the Kuper future project in a way that will eventually benefit our commercial and government customers and we are seeking to save lives, explore the universe and link the world.”

10 billion dollars Quiper Plan Project It was announced in 2019 and is now at a deadline of the US Federal Communications Committee 1,618 satellite published by mid -2016 – Half a total constellation, but much less than more than 7200 satellites that already operate Starlink. In contrast, SpaceX announced yesterday that it had completed The mission of the fifty stars from 2025Passing a total teacher 250 Starlenk customer is launched so far. The company is currently aimed at obtaining 12,000 satellite in Orbit, but already has an organizational approval to expand to 34,400 of the satellite.