Amazon Scrubs Wednesday Rocket Launch for Its Starlink Satellite Service Rival

Amazon will start soon 27 Lower Earth Orbit Satellites As part of it Project Kuiper. The original startup window was built on Wednesday, 7 to 9 pm (between 4 and 6 pt), but made a weak air missile launch during the day.

“In the weather, the air officer Brian Belsson launcher Cape Canaveral does not go to the lifting and forecast inside the remaining launch window.” Stubborn cumulus clouds and continuous winds are not possible to lift inside the existing window. “

Will be rescheduled but there is no word, but there is Mission page for updates Planning flights to Livestream at the beginning and Livestream. You can watch the missile release live on this page or YouTube.

Launch mission, KA-01 or Kuiper Atlas 1, the United States will be on an Alliance Atlas V missile and will take place at the Cape Canaveral Space Force station.

Amazon will take a big step for the project announced in 2019 $ 10 billion in investment. Now is preparing to enter a race to provide company Satellite Internet ServiceCurrently a space that Spacex is dominated Starlinkwhich 7000 satellites. Amazon’s plans will be placed in more than 80 initials for 3,200 satellites. The company intends to provide Internet service This year later with this technology.

More competition will improve internet services

The literal space racing included in Starlink, Amazon and other companies Viazat, HughesnetEutelsat and China’s fields can mean more internet services in remote flung and rural areas with limited broadband options. Although Starlink is the leader in space, some other companies are trying to launch satellites and place high-speed Internet in the market as Brazil. With more players in the market, it can mean faster and faster Cheaper internet In more area, it is seen even if it is actually taken to consumers.

Hazrat Mahdi EslamimehrIn the USC, the Executive Vice President of QUENŞENYY PEAK Research and additional professors in the Computer Science sector, said that Amazon Starlink said. “Amazon, Ula, Arianespace, blue origin and even large providers, such as large providers, even due to extensive infrastructure and important sources of cosmans, have long closed extensive release agreements.”

He said, “Currently, in Starlink, especially in Starlink, especially in China and the increase in strategically flexible rivals, shows that the market will compete more in the near future.”

To date, it has been promising and successful and successful in the ESAMImehr, Amazon’s satellite efforts and at least prototype stages. The company also tested Amazon web services in space. “These developments are collectively, Amazon’s healthy satellite internet market and reflect positive early acceleration in the general space strategy.”

In addition to how tariffs against Starlink and other companies will be the Amazon satellite launchers are important in other ways. ESMAMIMEHR, “Project Kuiper is not only competitive; placed as a critical step to close the global digital unit that promises to deliver high speed online.”

Correction, April 4: The previous version of this story wrote the name of the USC Professor and QUENŞARY PEAK Research Executive Deputy Executive. Name Hazrat Mahdi Eslamimehr.