Amazon is finally looking to launch its answer to SpaceX’s Starlink.
Despite SpaceX's entrenched lead, there are other players looking to eat into SpaceX's market share. Prominent among them is Blue Origin, Amazon on its upcoming launch efforts, Bezos has a second arm of the business, run by Amazon, that will soon enter orbit.The arm, Amazon's Project Kuiper, a broadband satellite internet project designed to compete with SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation, is targetting a milestone launch on Oct. 6.
“We’ve done extensive testing here in our lab and have a high degree of confidence in our satellite design, but there’s no substitute for on-orbit testing,” Rajeev Badyal, Project Kuiper’s vice president of technology said in a statement. “This is Amazon’s first time putting satellites into space, and we’re going to learn an incredible amount regardless of how the mission unfolds.
When the mission is complete, Amazon said it plans to de-orbit the two satellites to declutter the already-busy low-Earth orbit region. The company is planning to launch its first production satellites in the first half of 2024 and will begin beta testing with commercial customers by the end of the year.
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