Amazon says $139.5 million investment in Florida is key to ramping up launch cadence with Project Kuiper – Spaceflight Now

Amazon says $139.5 million investment in Florida is key to ramping up launch cadence with Project Kuiper – Spaceflight Now

Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot payload processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The site is used to prepare its Project Kuiper satellites ahead of launches on Blue Origin’s New Glenn, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and United Launch Alliances’s Vulcan and Atlas 5 rockets. Image: Amazon Amazon is hoping to get a good rhythm going with the launch and deployment of Project Kuiper, its 3,232-satellite inter…

Amazon Builds $140M NASA Facility to Accelerate Project Kuiper vs Starlink

Amazon’s push into satellite internet is accelerating with a significant infrastructure investment at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, positioning the e-commerce giant to challenge Elon Musk’s Starlink dominance. The company has unveiled a new $140 million processing facility designed specifically for preparing satellites for its Project Kuiper network, a constellation aimed at providing broadband to underserved regions worldwide. This 100,000-squar…