{"id":177259,"date":"2023-12-02T09:22:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/amazon-taps-spacex-for-satellite-launch-despite-jeff-bezos-rocket-company-elon-musk-says-it-will-be-fair-and-square"},"modified":"2023-12-02T09:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T15:22:58","slug":"amazon-taps-spacex-for-satellite-launch-despite-jeff-bezos-rocket-company-elon-musk-says-it-will-be-fair-and-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/amazon-taps-spacex-for-satellite-launch-despite-jeff-bezos-rocket-company-elon-musk-says-it-will-be-fair-and-square","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Taps SpaceX For Satellite Launch Despite Jeff Bezos\u2019 Rocket Company: Elon Musk Says It Will Be \u2018Fair And Square\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-taps-spacex-for-satellite-launch-despite-jeff-bezos-rocket-company-elon-musk-says-it-will-be-fair-and-square.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire CEO <strong class=\"\">Elon Musk <\/strong>on Friday said that his rocket manufacturing company SpaceX launched the satellite systems of its rivals without favoring their own.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO took to X to clarify the same after SpaceX entered into a contract to launch <strong class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> Inc<\/strong>\u2019s AMZN Kuiper satellites, aimed at providing satellite internet along the lines of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">What Happened:<\/strong> Under the newly announced contract, SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket will launch thrice to deliver Kuiper satellites to low-Earth orbit starting mid-2025. Project Kuiper is a project by the e-commerce giant aimed at providing broadband with the help of a network of satellites in low-Earth orbit like Starlink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire CEO Elon Musk on Friday said that his rocket manufacturing company SpaceX launched the satellite systems of its rivals without favoring their own. The CEO took to X to clarify the same after SpaceX entered into a contract to launch Amazon.com Inc\u2019s AMZN Kuiper satellites, aimed at providing satellite internet along the lines of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177259","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}