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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last month

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#Amazon is under time pressure ⏱️. The license issued by the US regulatory authorities for the operation of #satellite internet in 2020 requires half of the satellite network to be completed by 📆 July 2026. The rest must be in orbit by July 2029 ⏳. More than 30 additional launches are planned with other companies, such as #Arianespace and #BlueOrigin. Even the competitor #SpaceX is helping out https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launches-the-first-internet-satellites-for-Project-Kuiper-next-week-10338214.html

#Kuiper #ULA #Ariane6 #NewGlenn #Falcon9

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 4 weeks ago

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#ULA : "Weather is observed and forecast NO GO 👎 for liftoff within the remaining launch window at Cape Canaveral". No new date has been scheduled https://www.cnet.com/science/space/amazon-scrubs-wednesday-rocket-launch-for-its-starlink-satellite-service-rival

#Amazon #Kuiper

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last week

#Amazon said it had established communications with all of the satellites, and the sequence of turning them on was “proceeding as planned.” The #FCC’s approval of the constellation came with a requirement that at least half 📊 the #satellites needed to be deployed by 📆 July 30, 2026. Industry analysts say the company could get an extension if it has demonstrated substantial progress by then https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/science/amazon-kuiper-launch-ula.html

#ULA #Atlas #Kuiper

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last week

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At the end of March, #Starlink consisted of more than 7100 satellites 🛰️. Over five million people worldwide use the system. #Amazon launched two test satellites into space in 📆 2023. The plan was to launch the first regular satellites into space in the first half of 📆 2024. #ULA is set to complete up to five more #satellite transports for the company this year https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launches-first-Kuiper-satellites-into-space-10366771.html

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 3 weeks ago

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#ULA #Kuiper launch rescheduled to Tue Apr 29, 2025 01:00 CEST https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6772

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last week

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#ULA #Atlas #Kuiper

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 7 months ago

Today, drivers on the east coast of #Florida barely glance as #rockets 🚀 taking off from #CapeCanaveral soar overhead. “Nowadays I look at it like I look at a plane 🛫. It’s just normal.” 🥱 https://www.independent.co.uk/space/spacex-rocket-launch-falcon-9-space-b2288899.html

#LaunchCadence

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 5 months ago

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#CapeCanaveral :

• Works on the #Starship launch facility at Pad #39A are proceeding
• #StokeSpace's #Nova is scheduled to fly from #SLC14 as early as next year
• #Relativity’s #SLC16 will support the partially reusable #TerranR
• #ULA is expanding its Spacecraft Processing and Operations Center
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/12/cape-flyover-2

#KennedySpaceCenter

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last year

Launch costs have fallen 95% 📉 (with another massive reduction expected in the coming years) thanks to reuse, improved engineering, and increased volumes.
“In economics, we assume that resources are limited; land is limited; natural resources are limited. With #space 🌌, it allows us to change that.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/03/were-in-a-new-era-the-21st-century-space-race-takes-off

#LaunchCost #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 11 months ago

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“ #Amazon is purchasing up to 83 launches from #Arianespace, #BlueOrigin and #ULA”. At current market prices, it is assumed that the launch Capex from these 83 launches could be as high as $6 billion to $10 billion, deploying only half 🌗 as many satellites as #Starlink already did by 📆 mid-2024. If #Kuiper had access to the same launch deal as Starlink, its launch Capex could be less than half 📉 of what it is estimated here. https://spacenews.com/spacex-and-the-categorical-imperative-to-achieve-low-launch-cost/

#Ariane6 #Vulcan #NewGlenn #LauchCost