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Amazon Shoots for the Stars Again To Take on Elon Musk's Starlink
Amazon Shoots for the Stars Again To Take on Elon Musk's Starlink originally appeared on L.A. Mag.
Amazon's second batch of 27 satellites launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida just before 7 a.m. Monday morning. The satellites are part of a constellation that Amazon is building, which will consist of over 3,200 high-speed internet satellites.'Today's launch is the second of 46 recurring missions for Project Kuiper,' ULA said in a post on their website. 'Project Kuiper aims to provide fast and reliable internet to users around the world by launching over 3,200 satellites into low Earth orbit.'This mission is ambitious,' said MiMi Aung, a director of the project, in a prerecorded presentation in the launch livestream. 'It's going to impact communities that cannot be reached with fiber-traditional communications. The solution has to be from space.'
Amazon's first mission was on April 28, when they sent up the first 27 satellites to start off the constellation. The $10 billion project was unveiled in 2019 and faced delays for its first launch, which was set to be in 2024. The company has a set deadline by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to deploy at least half of its satellites by July 2026. Amazon has booked a total of 80 flights with different companies, including its rival, SpaceX, which has over 8,000 satellites. SpaceX's latest addition was this morning at 1:58 a.m. EDT from the same station as Amazon.'We have set out to design the most advanced satellite network ever built, and we have created the whole thing, in-house, at Amazon,' said Rajeev Badyal, the vice president of technology at Project has not been a set date announced for their next planned launch.
This story was originally reported by L.A. Mag on Jun 23, 2025, where it first appeared.
