The first 27 satellite of the Kuper Broadband Conservative was launched at Amazon in the space of Florida on Monday, which led to the launch of publication long ago on the Internet from the space network that will compete with Starlink from Spacex.
Satellite is the first of 3,236 Amazon It plans to send a low-Earth orbit to the Kuper Project, a $ 10 billion effort announced in 2019 to become Beam BroadBand Internet worldwide for consumers, companies and governments-clients who have tried for years through its strong work in Starlink.
Sitting on top of the ATLAS V missile from the Boeing and Lockheed Martin-Riture United launch coalition, a 27-satellite batch was placed in space at 7 pm EST from the missile launch platform at Cape CANATERAL space Power Station. Bad weather got rid of an initial launch attempt on April 9.
It can be said that Kuper is the biggest bet for Amazon, as it affects it against Starlink as well as global communications providers such as AT & T and T-Mobile. The company put the service as a whole for rural areas where the communication is scattered or not present.
The task of publishing the first operating satellites was delayed for more than a year-Amazon was once contemplated to be able to launch the opening batch in early 2024. The company faces a final date set by the American Federal Communications Committee to publish half a constellation, 1,618 of the satellite, by mid 2026, but Amazon is likely to seek to find an extension.
Hours or perhaps after days of launch, Amazon publicly is expected to confirm initial contact with all satellites from the mission operations center in Redmond, Washington. If things go as planned, the company said it expects to “start providing service to customers later this year.”
Tori Bruno, CEO of Ula, told Reuters in an interview this month that ULA could launch up to five other missions from Kuper this year. Amazon said in the 2020 Federal Communications Committee (FCC) that it can start service in some northern and southern regions in 578 satellites, with coverage coverage towards the equator on the ground where the company launches more satellites.
The Kuper project for web and e -commerce services is an ambitious giant, with a late start on the SPACEX market. But Amazon executives see the company’s deep consumer product and cloud computing business that will communicate with Kuper as a feature on Starlink.
Amazon launched initial satellites in 2023 in the tests that she said was successful, before shooting them in 2024. It was relatively calm about developing the program until the announcement of the first Kuper’s launch plans earlier this month.
ELON Musk’s Spacex, with a unique feature as a satellite operator and its launch company with the reusable Falcon 9, has more than 8000 satellite in Orbitit since 2019, which represents its allocated launch dedicated on Monday. The pace of publishing was quick to a mission at least one of the stars per week, and each missile with nearly twenty satellites on board to expand the range of the network frequency and replace old satellites.
This Quick Pace helped collect more than 5 million Internet users in 125 countries, and raise the global satellite telecommunications market, Woo Military Agencies and Intelligence that sought to use Starlink and its manufacturing line for sensitive national security programs.
Amazon Executive, Jeff Bezos, has expressed confidence that Kuiper could compete with Starlink, and told Reuters in an interview in January, “There is an indescribable request on the Internet.
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He said: “There is room for many winners there. I expect Starlink to continue to succeed, and I expect Kuper to be successful as well.”
He added: “It will be a commercial system in the first place, but there will be defensive uses of these LEO constellations, undoubtedly,” in reference to the low -Earth orbit.
Amazon unveiled in 2023 its consumer stations in Kuper, an LP Venil -size antenna that communicates with the Kuper satellite, as well as a smaller station that compares its size to the Kindle e -books device. The company expects to manufacture tens of millions of devices with less than 400 dollars each.
In 2022, Amazon booked 83 from ULA and France’s ARIANESPACE and Blue Orige, Bezos’s Space Company, which has disrupted the largest launch deal in the industry ever as it prepared to start publishing Kuper.
