The first 27 satellites in Amazon’s effort to create an internet network based on space have finally reached the orbit, racing the way for the company to try to compete with the well -established Starlink service of Elon Musk.
A Atlas V Rocket Atlas V rocket V by United Alliance (ULA) rose Monday through the Cape Canaveral space force station in Florida, delivering the satellites in orbit around the earth. They are the first lot of what is expected to be a total of 3,226 Kuiper satellites on the network.
Even that would pave compared to the Musk network. Starlink already consists of more than 8,000 satellites, which were pushed into space for 250 different Spacex launches. The service now has more than 5 million users.
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has said that there is “space for many winners” in the satellite internet space, and his company has reclaimed It is more focused on “communities not attended and unattended worldwide.”
Amazon is supposed to launch the first half of the network in mid -2016, a deadline established by the Federal Communications Commission. The ULA CEO told him Reuters That could be up to five more kuiper releases this year. But, according to reports, the Kuiper project is working through production problems, which could hinder progress towards its objective of completing the constellation.
