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Amazon’s secured launch contracts will provide capacity to deploy the majority of the Project Kuiper satellite constellation and support thousands of suppliers and highly skilled jobs across the United States and Europe.
Project Kuiper satellites have been designed and developed in-house by Amazon to maximize performance while reducing costs.
Amazon plans to develop a dedicated 172,000-square-foot satellite production facility in Kirkland, Washington for Project Kuiper.
The Defense Innovation Unit signed agreements on 2022-11-02 with Amazon Web Services, Kuiper Government Solutions, Microsoft Azure Space, and SpiderOak Mission Systems for a project to demonstrate space-based communications using interconnected commercial and government networks.
Amazon secured a NASA contract for mesh networking in space earlier 2022.
Embratel could leverage 4 Gbps over SES’s O3b mPOWER network to extend high-powered mobile backhaul service to more than 260,000 inhabitants across eight Amazon cities.
Amazon plans to open a 172,000-square-foot satellite production facility in Kirkland, Washington to build as many as four satellites per day.
On 27 October 2022, SES signed a multiyear capacity renewal with Claro Brasil through Embratel to enable enhanced 0.004 kg/0.005 kg-ready services via SES’s O3b mPOWER network in at least eight of the 23 cities Claro Brasil serves in the Amazon region.
Embratel could leverage 4 Gbps over SES’s O3b mPOWER network under the renewal agreement to extend high-powered mobile backhaul service to more than 260,000 inhabitants of eight cities in the Amazon region.
Amazon will offer Kuiper user terminals that cost under $400 to produce.
SES will continue to serve other communities in the Amazon region with geostationary (GEO) satellite-delivered backhaul capacity.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission set the July 2026 deadline in 2020 when it approved Amazon’s request to operate an estimated $10,000,000,000 constellation of roughly 3,200 internet satellites in low Earth orbit.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper needs about 1,600 satellites operating in low Earth orbit by July 2026.
Amazon operates a 219,000-square-foot research and development facility for Project Kuiper in Redmond, Washington.
The Kuiper constellation was designed to operate in the Ka band, which resulted in larger satellites with more power on the bus and allowed Amazon to build a lower-cost antenna.
SES will continue to serve other communities in the Amazon region with geostationary (GEO) satellite-delivered backhaul capacity.
Amazon ordered more than 80 Ariane 6, New Glenn, and Vulcan Centaur launches for Project Kuiper in April.
Amazon has secured up to 92 launches with United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, and Blue Origin to deploy a Project Kuiper constellation of 3,236 satellites.
United Launch Alliance is under contract to provide 47 launches for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, including 38 launches on Vulcan.
Amazon plans to retain its agreement with ABL Space Systems to launch two Kuiper satellites.