Written in GLOBAL he 28/4/2025 · 23:04 hs
Miami, Florida.- The first broadband satellites of Amazonpart of your Kuiper project, what will offer high -speed Internet from spacethey took out successfully from the station from the station Cabo Cañaveral, in Florida (United States).
The mission, called KA-01 (An abbreviation of Kuiper Atlas 1) and that consists of a lot of 27 satellites, was launched in a rocket of the company United Launch Alliance (ULA) at 19:01 Local time.
It was planned that this “constellation” of satellites would take off on April 9, but finally had to cancel due to climatic complications that prevented the appropriate conditions for their rise from being given.
Today’s is the first of the 46 Missions that ULA will carry out so that Amazon deploy most of your project satellites Kuiperwith a total of eight releases with the Atlas rocket v and another 38 with the ship Vulcan.
In total, the Kuiper project, which aims to offer high -speed internet and low latency (delay in data transmission) from space will include more than 3 mil 200 Advanced satellites in low terrestrial orbit (At an altitude of 2 thousand kilometers or less on the earth’s surface).
With Kuiper, Amazon will compete directly with other companies such as Starlink -Elon Musk Propiety-, that has more than 7 thousand broadband satellitesas well as Onoweb or China SpaceSail.
The Federal Communications Commission gave the technological until July 2026 To launch half of its satellite constellation, for those who Amazon is investing until 10 billion dollars.
In addition to ULA, the company has other launch partners such as the ‘startup’ Blue Origin de Jeff Bezos, or your own Spacex, Starlink matrix.
The company pointed at the beginning of the month that the satellites of this mission are “a significant improvement” of two prototype satellites that tested during its Protoflight mission In October 2023, so that the performance of all on -board systems has been improved, including processors and solar panels.
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