Amazon Plans Kuiper Satellite Processing Facility At Kennedy

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Amazon has bought 77 heavy-lift launches to deploy its Kuiper satellite constellation. 

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Amazon plans to build a satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to prepare its Kuiper satellites for launch aboard Blue Origin New Glenn and United Launch Alliance Vulcan rockets. Amazon also has launch contracts to deliver its broadband satellite constellation in low Earth...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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