{"id":149048,"date":"2022-10-28T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/amazon-may-have-to-turn-to-spacex-for-help-launching-its-starlink-rival-service"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:23:55","slug":"amazon-may-have-to-turn-to-spacex-for-help-launching-its-starlink-rival-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/amazon-may-have-to-turn-to-spacex-for-help-launching-its-starlink-rival-service","title":{"rendered":"Amazon may have to turn to SpaceX for help launching its Starlink rival service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-may-have-to-turn-to-spacex-for-help-launching-its-starlink-rival-service2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d be crazy not to, given their track record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is working toward the launch of two prototype satellites for its SpaceX Starlink-rivaling internet service, Project Kuiper. The delivery giant plans to launch these first two satellites at some point next year, and earlier this year, it penned what it calls \u201cthe largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon signed that agreement, totaling 83 Kuiper launches, with United Launch Alliance (ULA), European firm Arianespace, and Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s one important caveat, though.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>1, 2<\/p>\n<p>The delivery giant plans to launch these first two satellites at some point next year, and earlier this year, it penned what it calls \u201cthe largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/amazon-may-have-to-turn-to-spacex-for-help-launching-its-starlink-rival-service\">Continue reading \u201cAmazon may have to turn to SpaceX for help launching its Starlink rival service\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou\u2019d be crazy not to, given their track record.\u201d Amazon is working toward the launch of two prototype satellites for its SpaceX Starlink-rivaling internet service, Project Kuiper. The delivery giant plans to launch these first two satellites at some point next year, and earlier this year, it penned what it calls \u201cthe largest commercial procurement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}