Key points
- Amazon plans to deliver more than 3,200 satellites into orbit
- Project Kuiper is a $10 billion effort unveiled in 2019
- Satellites will provide high-speed and affordable internet service
ISLAMABAD: The first 27 satellites for Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida on Monday, kicking off the long-delayed deployment of an internet-from-space network that will rival SpaceX’s Starlink.
According to Reuters, the satellites are the first of 3,236 that Amazon plans to send into low-Earth orbit for Project Kuiper, a $10 billion effort unveiled in 2019 to beam broadband internet globally for consumers, businesses and governments – customers that SpaceX has courted for years with its powerful Starlink business.
According to New York Post, Amazon’s Project Kuiper sent 27 satellites up in a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
High-speed and affordable internet
The first batch of satellites will form the beginning of a mega constellation that will provide high-speed and affordable internet service to almost any location on Earth.
Nominal start to our KA-01 mission. We’ve already established contact with all 27 Kuiper satellites in orbit, and initial deployment and activation sequences are proceeding as planned. Thanks to @ULAlaunch for a successful launch – the first of many missions together. pic.twitter.com/XyG0UCgjuX
— Project Kuiper (@ProjectKuiper) April 29, 2025
Project Kuiper posted on X that the satellites’ initial deployment and activation sequences are proceeding as planned.
The Kuiper team will manage the constellation from its 24/7 mission operations center in Redmond, Washington.
Important moment for @ProjectKuiper as we just confirmed our first 27 production satellites are operating as expected in low Earth orbit. While this is the first step in a much longer journey to launch the rest of our low Earth orbit constellation, it represents an incredible… pic.twitter.com/sb2eO6n6Im
— Andy Jassy (@ajassy) April 29, 2025
“While this is the first step in a much longer journey to launch the rest of our low Earth orbit constellation, it represents an incredible amount of invention and hard work,” CEO and president of Amazon Andy Jassy said in a post on X.
Amazon, founded by Jeff Bezos, plans to deliver more than 3,200 satellites into orbit, according to New York Post.
