Via Satellite by Rachel Jewett | June 27, 2024
Amazon is pushing back the first full launch for its Project Kuiper constellation to the fourth quarter of 2024, the company announced Thursday. Amazon previously said it would start launching the constellation in the first half of this year and to start customer pilots this year as well.
Amazon said the timeline of customer pilots is pushed back, but confirmed that it remains on track to meet the previously stated target of offering service to customers in 2025. Amazon expects to ship the first completed production satellites this summer and the first full-scale Kuiper mission will use a ULA Atlas V rocket.
“We will continue to increase our rates of satellite production and deployment heading into 2025, and we remain on track to begin offering service to customers next year,” Amazon said in a June 27 blog post.
Amazon faces an FCC deadline to have half of the 3,232-satellite constellation launched by July 2026.
More:
https://www.satellitetoday.com/connectivity/2024/06/27/amazon-pushes-the-first-full-kuiper-launch-to-q4/
