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Amazon is establishing a Project Kuiper research and development headquarters in Redmond, Washington with laboratories, prototype manufacturing facilities, and office and design space.
Amazon anticipates deploying Project Kuiper satellites in five waves and plans to start service once the first wave of 578 satellites is in orbit.
Amazon will invest $10,000,000,000 in Project Kuiper.
Project Kuiper joins SpaceX, Telesat, OneWeb, and potentially Viasat in competing to provide high-speed broadband from low Earth orbit using large numbers of satellites.
Amazon plans to operate Project Kuiper in three orbital layers at approximately 590 km, 610 km, and 630 km.
Amazon plans to launch Project Kuiper satellites in five waves with satellites designed to operate for seven years.
Project Kuiper is a constellation of 3,236 satellites that Amazon plans to deploy in low Earth orbit for low-latency, high-speed broadband.
Amazon will move its Project Kuiper team in 2020 to a permanent research and development headquarters with facilities for designing and testing its planned megaconstellation of broadband satellites.
Amazon must launch at least one Project Kuiper satellite by early 2026 to comply with the seven-year countdown that started in March when it filed with the International Telecommunication Union for Ka-band spectrum.
Amazon is completing renovation of two leased buildings in Redmond, Washington that will provide Project Kuiper with 219,000 square feet (20,300 square meters) of space for R&D labs, prototype manufacturing facilities, and office and design space.