Amazon announces plans to launch 3,236 internet satellites by 2025 for its ‘Project Kuiper’ and also signs a contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches.
American e-commerce giant Amazon has announced that it will seek the help of Space-X to send its internet satellite Kuiper into space in 2025, signing a contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches. have been done. This is going to be the first major collaboration between the two companies.
Amazon launched its first test internet satellites Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2 this October. Meanwhile, the company is going to launch several internet satellites in 2025, for which it is going to take the data of Space-X, one of its biggest rivals.
NEWS: Amazon has signed a contract with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to support deployment plans for Project Kuiper, Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Congrats! pic.twitter.com/vwIEJxpWEE
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Meanwhile, Amazon has set a target of launching three Falcon 9 missions by mid-2025, in which Musk’s Space-X is also going to have a big contribution. Amazon on Friday plans to use Space-X’s Falcon 9 rocket for three launches to the Kuiper satellite beginning in mid-2025. Also: When will the Tesla Cybertruck Delivery Event be held and where can you see this production?
Amazon is going to use its own launch vehicle, New Glenn, to launch its Kuiper satellite with the help of Space-X. Meanwhile, a contract has been signed for ‘Project Kuiper’ in collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, but let us know why Amazon wants to take the help of SpaceX for this project and what is there in this project.
What is Amazon’s Project Kuiper?
Amazon’s Project Kuiper is a satellite-based broadband internet service, with the help of which the aim is to provide internet access around the world. Meanwhile, it is being claimed in the report about Project Kuiper that “Amazon’s Kuiper satellite is to provide internet speed up to 1Gbps to the customers.”
The main goal of Project Kuiper is to provide Internet access even in areas where cable service and cellular networks cannot reach. It is going to work similar to the Starlink satellite of Elon Musk’s space company Space-X. Meanwhile, Amazon has signed a contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches for Project Kuiper, which will be a major collaboration with SpaceX.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is a reusable, two-stage launch vehicle designed for reliable and safe transportation of logos and payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. Out of these, more than 270 successful launches have been made so far.
Amazon has invested $10 billion in this project (Project Kuiper), before which the company has launched two prototype satellites, KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 in October 2023. Amazon believes that Project Kuiper will provide worldwide Internet access and play a vital role in boosting the global economy.
Company will launch 3,236 internet satellites in ‘Project Kuiper’
Amazon has planned to launch 3,236 internet satellites in its ‘Project Kuiper’ in the next year (2025). The US Federal Communications Commission expects Amazon to meet half of that figure by 2026. Now it remains to be seen whether Amazon will be able to meet these figures and provide internet access to the entire world through satellite-based broadband internet service.
The company, which plans to launch most of the Kuiper satellites into space in the first half of 2024, will be launched not only by SpaceX but also by various rockets from ULA, Arianespace and Jeff Bezos-led Blue Origin. After the success of Project Kuiper, this could be a big change in the satellite internet service sector in space.