Overview

• Monday’s Atlas V launch, which overcame last week’s nitrogen purge scrub, delivered 27 Project Kuiper satellites, bringing Amazon’s fleet to 54 in orbit.
• Amazon has contracted six more Atlas V launches for Kuiper missions and purchased 38 Vulcan rockets from ULA.
• The first Kuiper flight aboard ULA’s higher-capacity Vulcan rocket is slated as early as July, boosting per-launch satellite capacity from 27 to 45.
• The company must place at least half of its 3,236 planned satellites into service by July 2026 to satisfy its FCC deployment deadline.
• Amazon has erected a $120 million satellite processing facility at Kennedy Space Center to accelerate final launch preparations.