July 16, update 2:53 AM EDT: Falcon 9 descended on booster droneship.
Amazon now has a third launch of its project Kuper broadband internet satellites in books. This time, he launched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Mission, KF-01 or Kuper Falcon 1 dubbed, raised at EDT (0630 UTC) at 2:30. The rocket flew from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canvart Space Force Station and starts deploying 24 projects Kuper satellites about 56 minutes after the liftoff.
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SpaceX used Falcon 9 First Stage Booster with tail number B1096 to launch the mission, which flew for the first time. About 8.5 minutes after the liftoff, landed on droneship, ‘Decreased gravitas.’
It was 118th landing on this vessel and 476th booster landing to date.
Ramping the table
Amazon sends its satellites to the Earth’s orbit for the third time the launch set for the early hours of Wednesday. It follows a pair of launch on the Atlas 5 rockets from the United Launch Alliance, each with 27 satellites in each.
At the conclusion of the KF -01 mission, successful deployment brings Amazon to 78 satellites in the class. The Federal Communications Commission requires Amazon to have at least 50 percent of its employed 3,236-satellite nakshatra in subsequent operations since July 30, 2026.
In a statement, Amazon said that 24 satellites were released from Falcon 9 rockets to 289-mile (465-me) high orbit. Kuper Ground Controllers at Redmund, Washington planned to conduct initial health check -ups of satellites before starting operations to raise their classes up to about 391 miles (630 km).
The first batch of Amazon’s launch was bought in 2021 when it announced that it gained nine dedicated flights using Ula’s Atlas 5 rocket. In April 2022, it performed at least 68 launched three separate rockets with this.
Tech veteran bought 38 flights on Ula’s Vulcan rocket, 18 on Ariane 6 rockets of 18 Arianspace and at least 12 using Blue Origin’s New Glenn. Amazon bought the option to add 15 additional new Glenn launch, as well as.
The company was the company with the highest launch rate, especially absent in the launch lineup: SpaceX. At the time when Amazon announced his huge launch space purchase on April 5, 2022, SpaceX launched 31 launch in 2021 and 11 in 2022 so far.
Comparatively, in the same time limit, Ula launched twice by April 2022 and five times in 2021. For reference, however, its delta 4 and atlas 5 rockets were in the process of being phased before the introduction of the vulcan and there were only a finite number that it could perform.
Amazon investors pushed back against the idea of starting the project Kuper constellation without using SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. A trial was filed in August 2023, arguing that individual emotions about Elon Musk of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had done everything to buy the launch capacity for the project Kuper Satellite Nakshatra.
The suit claimed that Bezos and Amazon CEO Andy Jassi not selecting any launch using Falcon 9 rocket “consciously and deliberately violated their most basic fidukari responsibilities. It says that the leaders of the company said that the company’s leaders” with the personal rivalry of the company with the personal rivalry of the company, the first and the first and the cheap lamps, SpaceX out. “
Amazon denied the claims in September 2023, stating the CNBC, “The claims in the trial are completely without merit.”
A few months later, however, Amazon announced in a press release of December 2023 that it signed a launch contract with SpaceX to fly his three Falcon 9 rockets of his project Kuper satellites. At that time, Amazon said that they would start flying in the middle of the mission 20125.
Amazon said in a statement at that time, “Arianspace, Blue Origin, and United Launching Our earlier purchases of 77 heavy-lift rockets from the United Launch Alliance (Ula) provide sufficient potential to launch the majority of our satellite constellation, and excess launch with SpaceX provides more capacity to support our deployment.”
It is not clear when the aurianspace or blue origin will start launching satellites. So far, the Ariane 6 rockets and a new glenn have only launched only two.
The next flight of ariaspace is determined with a satellite of the Emetsat for August and Blue Origin has not announced what its next payload or actually when it will launch.
Ula, meanwhile, is planning to launch its first batch of 45 cuper satellites on a vulcan rocket in half of the back of 2025, when it launches a pair of national security payload, starting with the USSF -106 mission.
