Amazon’s competitor to #SpaceX 🚀 Starlink, known as Project Kuiper, is struggling to scale up production of its satellites to hit a key U.S. government deadline, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Despite a Federal Communications Commission deadline of July 2026 to deploy more than 1,600 satellites, Amazon has produced just a few dozen satellites so far, making it likely that the company will have to request an extension, according to the report. Amazon is not consistently producing one satellite per day and would have to quadruple production to meet the deadline, Bloomberg reported. Kuiper is intended to be a satellite internet competitor to SpaceX which currently has millions of Starlink customers and thousands of satellites in orbit. Amazon was set to launch its first commercial Kuiper satellites on April 9, but the launch was delayed until April 28 due to weather conditions. An Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company is still on track to build and launch enough satellites to start offering commercial Kuiper internet service to customers later this year. #Space law https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/amazon-project-kuiper-space-internet-struggles-to-catch-elon-musk-s-starlink?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm

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Amazon’s competitor to #SpaceX 🚀  Starlink, known as Project Kuiper, is struggling to scale up production of its satellites to hit a key U.S. government deadline, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
Despite a Federal Communications Commission deadline of July 2026 to deploy more than 1,600 satellites, Amazon has produced just a few dozen satellites so far, making it likely that the company will have to request an extension, according to the report. Amazon is not consistently producing one satellite per day and would have to quadruple production to meet the deadline, Bloomberg reported. Kuiper is intended to be a satellite internet competitor to SpaceX which currently has millions of Starlink customers and thousands of satellites in orbit.
Amazon was set to launch its first commercial Kuiper satellites on April 9, but the launch was delayed until April 28 due to weather conditions. An Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company is still on track to build and launch enough satellites to start offering commercial Kuiper internet service to customers later this year.

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Amazon’s Starlink Rival Struggles to Ramp Up Satellite Production

Amazon.com Inc.’s internet-from-space venture is struggling to ramp up production, jeopardizing its ability to meet a government deadline to have more than 1,600 satellites in orbit by next summer.