Amazon’s first 27 internet satellites launch to space

The first 27 satellites in Amazon’s endeavor to create a space online network finally arrived in the orbit, and obtained the journey of the company to try to compete with the well -established Starlink service of Elona Musk.

Atlas V Rocket United Lanting (ULS) rose late Monday from the Cape Canaveral Space Power station in Florida, delivering satellites to the orbit around the Earth. They are the first series of what is expected to be a total of 3,226 Kuiper satellites in the network.

Even this would be pale compared to the men’s net. Starlink is already consisting of more than 8,000 satellites, which pushed 250 different Spacex launch into space. The service now has more than 5 million users.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said there is a “room for a lot of winners in satellite internet space” and his company has hard She is more focused on “insecure and not enough community around the world.”

Amazon should run the first half of the net until mid -2026, a deadline set by the Federal Communications Commission. The CEO of Ula -a said Reuters that there could be five more Kuipher movements this year. But the Kuiper project is Allegedly working through production problemswhich could prevent the progress toward his goal of filling the constellation.