CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. – SpaceX launched Amazon’s Project Kuiper into orbit early Wednesday from Florida’s Space Coast.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 2:30 a.m., slightly later than first planned.
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 were 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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