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Amazon Claims Prototype Satellites for Kuiper Community Working Efficiently

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November 17, 2023
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Amazon.com mentioned on Thursday its two prototype satellites for its deliberate Kuiper web community have been working efficiently in orbit, with the challenge on monitor to begin launching operational satellites by mid-2024. The Kuiper web community is about to compete towards billionaire Elon Musk‘s Starlink, the world’s largest satellite tv for pc operator, to supply broadband web service globally to customers, firms and governments. Amazon mentioned it had achieved a 100% success price inside the first 30 days of the launch of the prototype satellites from Florida aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.

Amazon mentioned it used the prototype satellites for temporary two-way video calls, streaming a high-definition film on Prime Video and ordering gadgets off Amazon’s web site. “We still have a lot of hard work ahead, and scaling for mass production won’t be easy,” mentioned Rajeev Badyal, vice chairman of expertise for Project Kuiper. The US Federal Communications Commission has required Amazon to deploy half of its greater than 3,000-planned satellite tv for pc constellation by 2026.

On the heels of the profitable prototype exams, Amazon expects to begin constructing production-ready satellites subsequent month for a launch within the second quarter of 2024, Badyal informed Reuters. Badyal declined to say what number of satellites Amazon would launch per rocket.

Badyal mentioned he expects the community will probably be able to offering broadband protection in some elements of the world by late 2024, for an early beta part focused to start in early 2025.

Early companions like Vodafone and Verizon are set to develop into the primary telecom corporations to beta take a look at the service.

Amazon final 12 months introduced a bulk launch deal for 83 launches — the biggest industrial rocket procurement ever — from varied rocket firms, together with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, ULA and Europe’s Arianespace.

The Boeing-Lockheed three way partnership United Launch Alliance is about to loft the primary a number of batches of Kuiper satellites aboard its Atlas 5 and the corporate’s upcoming Vulcan rocket.

Rival Starlink makes use of its personal in-house SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets to launch its community, which since 2019 has grown to roughly 5,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit, enabling near-global broadband protection.

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