CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla.
– SpaceX carried out a launch early Wednesday for Amazon’s Project Kuiper from Florida’s Space Coast.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 2:30 a.m., which was slightly later than first planned.
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A Falcon 9 rocket launched the KF-01 mission into orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Project Kuiper is a “low-Earth orbit satellite constellation that will provide fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities.”
During the mission, 24 Kuiper satellites will be sent into low-Earth orbit.
This was the first flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission. After stage separation, the first stage landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
Amazon’s inaugural
Project Kuiper
launched on
April 28.
Founded by
Jeff Bezos
, who now runs his own rocket company, Blue Origin, Amazon aims to put more than 3,200 of these satellites into orbit to provide fast, affordable broadband service around the globe.
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