1 of 9 | The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches from Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 6 (UPI) — An unmanned Atlas V rocket raised off from Cape Canaveral Friday as part of a objective to location thousands of interaction satellites in low Earth orbit to broaden international gainaccessto to broadband.
The Atlas V raised off at 2: 08 p.m. EDT, with the high-powered burner providing 2 test satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, which looksfor to bring high-speed Internet to inapplicable populations around the world.
About 18 minutes after liftoff, the model satellites, Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2, spun into orbit a little more than 300 miles above the Earth.
Amazon has set a objective to setup 3,236 of the satellites in area by the end of 2026, with a number of U.S. aerospace makers helping in launch efforts.
As part of Amazon’s licensing offer with the Federal Communications Commission, the worldwide e-commerce giant is needed to be running at least half of the Project Kuiper satellites in the preliminary rollout by July 2026.
Some of the brand-new broadband connections were anticipated to be functional by late 2024 in areas where there was no service previously.
In a comparable effort that released late last year, Elon Musk’s SpaceX gotten fed