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Amazon plans to invest more than €1 billion to electrify its European transportation network, including more than €400 million in Germany.
Jason Zhang, Director at Luce SG, noted that Amazon Location Service powered by GrabMaps provides one of the most accurate maps and routing data in its operating geographies.
Blue Origin previously won a contract from Amazon in April 2023 for 12 Project Kuiper launches with an option for 15 additional launches.
AWS has announced plans to launch 21 more Availability Zones and seven more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, and Switzerland.
United Launch Alliance is establishing a new customer program office to support Amazon’s Project Kuiper.
Amazon announced multi-billion-dollar launch contracts on 2022-04-05 to launch most of Project Kuiper’s 3,236 satellites over five years.
Amazon announced the largest commercial launch contract in history for Project Kuiper on April 5, 2022, at the Space Foundation’s Annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
Amazon is purchasing up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance to deploy most of its 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper, in contracts worth several billion dollars.
Amazon plans to launch its first two Project Kuiper prototype satellites in late 2022 on an ABL Space RS1 small rocket.
Amazon accused SpaceX of launching satellites with unlicensed antennas, launching rockets without approval, building an unapproved launch tower, and reopening a factory in violation of a shelter-in-place order.
Amazon plans to deploy more than 3,200 Kuiper satellites, which requires substantial launch capacity from multiple providers.
Amazon Web Services plans to attract new customers by offering more customized space-related services.
Most satellites on SpaceX’s record-setting small-satellite rideshare were either operated by Amazon Web Services customers or used AWS Ground Station and AWS cloud computing tools.
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 plans to launch Project Kuiper satellites in five waves with satellites designed to operate for seven years.
Amazon plans for the lowest Kuiper System shell to include 784 satellites orbiting at 590 km.
Amazon plans to launch production Kuiper System satellites to an altitude below the International Space Station to conduct system checks before raising them to their target orbit.
Amazon plans to deploy a 3,236-satellite broadband constellation called the Kuiper System.
Over the next 10 years, AWS plans to expand to the equivalent capacity of 200 dish antennas.
AWS plans to increase the number of ground stations beyond 12 and to increase the number of antennas at each location after 2019.