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Amazon is investing $120,000,000 to build a Kuiper satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Project Kuiper satellites will be built at Amazon’s primary factories in Redmond and Kirkland, Washington.
Amazon must deploy the remainder of the Project Kuiper constellation by July 2029 under its FCC license.
Amazon must deploy half of its Project Kuiper constellation, or 1,618 satellites, by July 2026 under deployment rules tied to its Federal Communications Commission license.
Amazon is investing $120,000,000 to build the Florida satellite processing facility as part of more than $10,000,000,000 committed to Project Kuiper.
Amazon’s production facilities in Kirkland, Washington are on track to start producing Project Kuiper satellites by the end of the year to provide early low Earth orbit services to enterprise customers in 2024.
Amazon has more than 1,400 Project Kuiper employees across the United States, primarily in Washington.
Amazon plans to build a 31,000-square-meter satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Amazon expects to complete the Kennedy Space Center satellite processing facility in 2024 at Kennedy’s runway-equipped Launch and Landing Facility.
Amazon initially planned to launch its first two Project Kuiper prototype satellites by the fourth quarter of 2022 on ABL Space Systems rockets before switching to a United Launch Alliance Vulcan mission now slated for the fourth quarter of 2023.
The expectation for Ariane 6 includes a broad manifest of European government missions and orders from Amazon’s Project Kuiper.
Amazon is working toward providing initial broadband services next year from its proposed Project Kuiper satellite constellation.
Amazon and Rivian designed the custom European van with a safety-first design focused on superior 360-degree visibility and pedestrian protection.
Amazon plans to invest more than €1 billion to electrify its European transportation network, including more than €400 million in Germany.
Amazon began rolling out its custom Rivian electric delivery vans in the United States in summer 2022 and already has more than 3,000 vans delivering packages in over 500 U.S. cities and regions.
Amazon is committed to reaching net-zero carbon across its operations by 2040 and considers reducing delivery-related emissions a critical part of that goal.
Amazon and Rivian partnered to design and build a state-of-the-art electric delivery vehicle from the ground up.
Amazon has tested deliveries with Rivian preproduction vehicles in Europe since 2022 to improve vehicle performance, safety, durability, and functionality across climates and geographies.
Amazon already operates a fleet of thousands of electric vans in Europe, including more than 1,000 electric vans in Germany.
In 2022, Amazon used zero-emission vehicles, including electric vans and micro-mobility solutions such as e-cargo bikes, e-scooters, and walkers, to deliver more than 120 million packages in Europe.