Amazon to send broadband satellite system into orbit on dozens of rockets

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Amazon will soon have its own satellite broadband system in orbit around the Earth, much like SpaceX’s Starlink system.

Amazon announced that it had reached agreements for up to 83 launches on rockets from three commercial space companies to send thousands of Project Kuiper satellites into orbit.

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The satellites will create a broadband system that Amazon claims will be fast and affordable for unserved and underserved communities around the world. The company says 3,236 satellites will be part of the Project Kuiper constellation.

Amazon said the launches are expected to happen over a five-year period, with 38 taking place on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rockets, 12 happening on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rockets with all of those launches happening from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Amazon will also send satellites up on Arianespace’s Ariane 6 rockets from French Guiana.