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Amazon is opening to get into nan groove erstwhile it comes to launches for its Project Kuiper net satellites.
The institution has truthful acold made 5 large-batch outer deployments pursuing the first 1 successful April 2025 arsenic it seeks to build retired its constellation of net satellites to return connected SpaceX’s Starlink service.
The astir caller motorboat took spot connected September 25 erstwhile a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket blasted disconnected from Cape Canaveral successful Florida carrying 27 Project Kuiper satellites.
ULA has conscionable released a cool five-minute video (below) of nan motorboat that takes you from nan launchpad each nan measurement to orbit, pinch nan curvature of Earth clear to see. Watch for nan jettison of nan rocket’s coagulated rocket boosters astatine nan 1:46 mark, and for nan fairing jettison astatine 3:03. The main booster separates astatine 4:32.
ULA’s workhorse Atlas V rocket is simply a mean to heavy-lift expendable motorboat strategy and since its debut formation successful 2002 has been serving a scope of missions for authorities and commercialized customers.
The highly reliable rocket has launched 105 times since its maiden flight, pinch only 1 partial nonaccomplishment recorded erstwhile it grounded to scope nan intended orbit successful a formation successful 2007.
Amazon is utilizing a scope of spaceflight providers to motorboat its Project Kuiper satellites for a world net service.
The adjacent Project Kuiper flight, scheduled for October 8, will usage a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to deploy different 24 net satellites. The ngo will bring nan full number of Kuiper satellites successful orbit to 153, pinch a further 2 launches planned earlier nan extremity of this year.
Amazon is readying to motorboat a high-speed, low-latency net work by nan extremity of nan first 4th of 2026, pinch arsenic fewer arsenic 1,000 satellites required for world coverage.
