Amazon’s $20bn push into orbit targets SpaceX and China
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Published 4/10/2025 on economist.com
Apr 10th 2025
ASSUMING THE weather co-operates—thunderstorms have already caused the abandonment of one launch, on April 9th—at some point in the coming days Amazon will get itself into the space business. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket is on the launchpad in Florida, carrying the first batch of 27 satellites for Amazon’s new “Kuiper” satellite-internet system. The mighty e-commerce firm hopes to deliver “high-speed, low-latency internet to virtually any location on the planet”.
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