Amazon Buys Dozens of Rocket Launches for Satellite Business
- Bezos’ Blue Origin rockets net a dozen or more deployments
- Retail giant has deadline to launch half its satellites by ‘26
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Amazon.com Inc. is purchasing as many as 83 rocket launches from three different providers to deploy the majority of its planned Project Kuiper satellite constellation for high-speed internet service.
The deals with Arianespace SA, Blue Origin LLC and United Launch Alliance represent the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history, Amazon said Tuesday in a statement. Project Kuiper aims to provide high-speed internet from space, competing with similar offerings from Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s Starink service and U.K.-based OneWeb.