Amazon’s satellite broadband programme \u2014 Project Kuiper \u2014 will kick off a system performance test that will see two prototype satellites launched into space in early 2023.<\/p>\n
According to a statement from the company<\/a><\/strong>, it will finalise its first two satellites later this year. They will be deployed on the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) first flight on its new Vulcan Centaur rocket.<\/p>\n “Our prototype mission will help us test how the different pieces of our satellite network work together, adding real-world data from space to results from our extensive lab testing, fieldwork, and simulation,” Amazon said.<\/p>\n The ecommerce giant said test results would help it finalise its commercial satellite system’s design, deployment, and operational plans.<\/p>\n Vice president of technology for Project Kuiper, Rajeev Badyal, said Amazon had already secured 38 Kuiper launches on ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.<\/p>\n “Using the same launch vehicle for our prototype mission gives us a chance to practice payload integration, processing, and mission management procedures ahead of those full-scale commercial launches,” Badyal added.<\/p>\n “Our prototype satellites will be ready this year, and we look forward to flying with ULA.”<\/p>\n However, it is important to note that ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket isn’t yet complete. The organisation says<\/a><\/strong> it expects to finalise the rocket’s assembly in November, with testing wrapping up in December.<\/p>\n Amazon’s Project Kuiper, once in commercial operation, will compete with Starlink and OneWeb.<\/p>\n Amazon will deploy the satellites on the United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":464573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[723,65914,81971,563,81973],"class_list":["post-464571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-amazon","tag-project-kuiper","tag-rajeev-badyal","tag-satellite-internet","tag-united-launch-alliance-ula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464637,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464571\/revisions\/464637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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