{"id":177254,"date":"2023-12-02T07:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/amazon-taps-spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-to-help-launch-kuiper-satellites"},"modified":"2023-12-02T07:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:26:20","slug":"amazon-taps-spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-to-help-launch-kuiper-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/amazon-taps-spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-to-help-launch-kuiper-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Amazon taps SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket to help launch Kuiper satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-taps-spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-to-help-launch-kuiper-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dec 1 (Reuters) \u2014 Amazon <a data-testid=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/AMZN.O\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">(AMZN.O)<\/a> on Friday said it booked three Falcon 9 launches with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to help deploy the ecommerce giant\u2019s Project Kuiper satellite network, tapping a rival in the satellite internet business for its multi-billion dollar launch campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon aims to build Kuiper as a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit to beam broadband internet globally and compete with SpaceX\u2019s Starlink network, which already has some 5,000 satellites providing nearly global coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, which vowed in 2019 to invest $10 billion into the project, will put an unspecified number of Kuiper satellites on three Falcon 9 rockets from SpaceX beginning in mid-2025, the company said Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 1 (Reuters) \u2014 Amazon (AMZN.O) on Friday said it booked three Falcon 9 launches with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to help deploy the ecommerce giant\u2019s Project Kuiper satellite network, tapping a rival in the satellite internet business for its multi-billion dollar launch campaign. Amazon aims to build Kuiper as a constellation of 3,236 satellites in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177254","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}