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#Forbes 📆 Jun 23, 2023 "#Amazon says half of the 3,236 #satellites 🛰️ will be up above us by 📆 2026" - but who will #launch 🚀 them ? 🤔 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2023/06/23/project-kuiper-how-amazon-will-drape-the-world-in-satellites/

• #BlueOrigin / #NewGlenn : no news / tests yet
• #Ariane 6 is years late (again)
• #ULA's #Vulcan is late, dependent on #BE4 engines
All three will be operative until 2025
7.4%
Microlaunchers
2.9%
SpaceX
36.8%
They need a miracle
52.9%
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Project Kuiper: How Amazon Will Drape The World In Satellites

Amazon is moving into the low-earth orbit satellite business, and those satellites will be coming thick and fast. Here’s what the company has to say about the project.

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#Reuters 📆 August 7, 2023 #Amazon will launch the first two #satellites 🛰️ aboard a dedicated #Atlas V rocket from #ULA. In 📆 2021 ULA stopped selling the Atlas V and has 19 more missions to fly before the #rocket retires. The company had imported the rocket's #Russian 🇷🇺 -made #RD180 engines in bulk for those remaining missions and has no plans to order more https://www.reuters.com/science/amazon-switches-rockets-first-test-satellites-sooner-launch-2023-08-07
Amazon switches rockets for first test satellites to avoid launch delay

Amazon.com Inc <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/AMZN.O" target="_blank">(AMZN.O)</a> plans to launch its first pair of prototype internet satellites late next month on a different rocket than previously planned, a spokesman said on Monday, again switching rides for the spacecraft to avoid mounting rocket delays.

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