Amazon’s Answer to Elon Musk’s Starlink Gets New Space Ride for 2023 Launch

Amazon’s Answer to Elon Musk’s Starlink Gets New Space Ride for 2023 Launch
The Amazon logo on the opening day of a new distribution center in Augny, near Metz, eastern France, on Sept. 23, 2021. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images
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Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday that satellites for its Project Kuiper internet program will be launched by the new Vulcan rocket in early 2023.

The Jeff Bezos-founded company said in a statement that its first two satellites—Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2—will be launched on the maiden flight of the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) new Vulcan Centaur rocket early next year.