Amazon will start launching its Project Kuiper Starlink rival next week
After recent tests, Amazon was finally ready to launch the Kuper Space Internet project in an attempt to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink, the company announced. The first batch consisting of 27 satellites is scheduled to be launched on the Kuiper Atlas 1 mission in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on the Rockting United Launch Alliance Atlas V next April 9 of Cape Canaveral if conditions allow. Amazon hopes to start providing high -speed internet service "Later this year," He said.
The Amazon network will eventually include 3,200 satellites launched from partners including Ula, ArianesPace and Blue Orige and even Spacex. It is very similar to Starlink from the company, the Project Kuper will cover the entire planet upon completion. It will work with a small plate of seven inches that provide speeds of up to 100 Mbps, or smaller than Mini Mini, or up to 1 GB per second with larger dishes. The company said that the cost of the stations will be less than $ 400.
The satellites will roam 17,000 miles per hour, 392 miles above Earth, and rotate around the planet in about 90 minutes. Amazon said they would use a dialectical mirror film paint that is supposed to resurrect light and make them less clear to earthly astronomers. The SPACEX constellation currently uses more than 7000 satellites, so the Kuper and Starlink project will use more than 10,000 Leo satellite as soon as the Amazon network is complete.
Amazon launched two tests in October 2023 and announced early tests, as the couple sent data and recovered at speeds of up to 100 GB per second. Later in December, the network has strengthened with a network of high -speed laser crosses that promise more speed reinforcements. The company claims that the network network can transfer data 30 percent faster than the ground optical fiber cables.
The first launch of the Project Kuiper will be the heaviest load load so far for ATLAS V, which will fly in its strongest composition. The missile will include five solid missiles in addition to the main supporter, a height of 77 feet at a height of 77 feet and 16.4 feet.
Despite the previous successful tests, the task is not without risks. "We have conducted extensive tests on the ground to prepare for this first task, but there are some things that you can only learn on the trip, and this will be the first time that we have directed the final satellite design, and the first time we have published a lot of satellites at the same time," Vice president Koyber Rajev Bridal has written. "Regardless of how the task developed, this is just the beginning of our journey, and we have all the pieces in force to learn and adapt as we prepare to start over and over again over the coming years."
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2025-04-03 12:30:00
