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ULA delivers the payload of 27-satellite Kuiper 1 to the vertical integration system at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. | Credit: Ula
Amazon’s first big Project Project -Kuiper -Widenband satellite will only take off in a week if everything goes according to plan.
Amazon said today (April 2) said that an United Launch Alliance (Ula) Atlas V Rocket is scheduled to send 27 Kuiper satellites (Low Earth Orbit (Leo)).
The Atlas V is withdrawn from Floridas Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a three -hour window that is opened at 3 p.m. Edt (1900 GMT). You will be able to see it live when time comes.
This is the second project that Kuiper starts to this day. An Atlas V solved two test versions of the satellites in October 2023.
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“We carried out extensive tests on site to prepare for this first mission, but there are some things that you can only learn in flight, and this is the first time that we flew our final satellite design, and the first time that we used so many satellites today,” said Rajeev Badyal, Vice President of Project Kuiper, today in an Amazon declaration.
“No matter how the mission unfolds, this is only the beginning of our trip, and we have all the parts that we have always started in the coming years,” added Badyal.
According to Amazon, the original project kuiper constellation will consist of around 3,200 satellites in Leo. The network offers customers all over the world, just like the Starlink mega -Megakonstellation from SpaceX. (The company of Elon Musk currently operates more than 7,100 Starlink satellites in Leo and starts more of them every week.)
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The start on April 9 will be the first of the year for Ula. According to Amazon, the 27 project -Kuiper satellites will include the heaviest payload that the venerable Atlas V ever flew.
The company will build the Kuiper constellation project in the coming years with seven other Atlas V Starts and 38, in which the successor to the rocket, Ulas Neue Vulcan Centaur, is involved.
“An additional 30 starts are planned in our other starters: Arianespace, Blue Origin and SpaceX,” Amazon wrote in today’s statement.
