The launch of the first 27 of the Internet satellites from Amazon to space

Finally, 27 satellites have arrived in Amazon’s effort to create an internet -based internet, which paves the way for the company to try to compete with the established Starlink service from Elon Musk.

Atlas V Rocket A Atlas V United Launch (ULA) last Monday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, where he delivered satellites to an orbit around the Earth. It is the first batch of what is expected to be a total of 3,226 kuper satellites in the network.

So that would give up the musk network. Starlink is already consisting of more than 8000 satellites, which have been pushed into space by 250 different Spacex launches. The service now contains more than 5 million users.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said that there is a “space for many winners” in the satellite Internet space, and his company has Claim It is more focused on “unpopular and disadvantaged societies around the world.”

Amazon is supposed to launch the first half of the network by mid -2016, the deadline set by the Federal Communications Committee. The CEO of Ula said Reuters It can be up to five others who call Koyber this year. But the Quiber project is It is said that it works through production problemsWhich can hinder progress towards its goal of filling the constellation.