8 mai 2025
Amazon began Project Kuiper on April 28th with the launch of the first 27 satellites.
After a year’s delay, Amazon launched Project Kuiper last week. They were sent into low Earth orbit via an Atlas V rocket from Florida. United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, developed the rocket.
Amazon is investing $10 billion in providing internet services, particularly to areas with limited connectivity, competing with Starlink, T-Mobile, and AT&T. It launched two prototypes in 2023, which were de-orbited in 2024. It will deploy 3,236 satellites overall and begin offering services by the end of 2025.
Amazon has a mid-2026 deadline set by the US Federal Communications Commission to launch 1,618 satellites.
India’s Department of Telecommunications issued Starlink a Letter of Intent on May 7 for a Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite license for satellite-based broadband. Starlink needs to accept the terms, pay the fee, secure approval from the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre and await spectrum allocation.
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