Amazon Launches 27 Satellites in First Challenge to SpaceX and Starlink

In October 2023, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) took one small step toward chasing SpaceX's giant leap... of building a broadband satellite internet constellation circling the Earth.On October 6 that year, a United Launch Alliance (that's Boeing and Lockheed Martin) Atlas V rocket blasted off carrying Amazon's experimental Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2 to a 500-kilometer orbit above Earth, aiming to test the satellites' performance preparatory to beginning full-scale satellite production, and building a full constellation of 3,236 internet satellites. At the time, Amazon anticipated beginning full-scale deployment of Project Kuiper in H1 2024 and beginning "early customer pilots in the second half of 2024." But Amazon is behind schedule.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool