Amazon launches satellites from Florida space centre



Amazon launches a pair of test internet service satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to pave the way for a constellation of thousands as a rival to SpaceX’s orbiting fleet of Starlinks

Credit: United Launch Alliance

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16 thoughts on “Amazon launches satellites from Florida space centre”

  1. Isn't it Amazon that doesn't allow their drivers to take a break and they hav to urinate in a bottle and throw it out the window? Costing the local councils ALOT of money employing ppl to pick up after them! And dangerous on tje sides of highways, tut.

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  2. Space X and now Blue Origin are seeing to it that Kesseler Syndrome becomes a reality and in the future no spacecraft will be able to leave Earth without colliding with a satellite or space debris. This scenario will worsen if satellites themselves start to collide. Space X currently has about 4800 satellites in orbit with permission to launch a total of 12,000. Ultimately they want to launch another 30,000. Blue Origin is planning at least 3200 satellites. There are thousands of other satellites and pieces of debris, spent rockets etc in orbit, larger ones being tracked, many not. Maybe this is all farfetched but in the quest for profits now the future is often a minor consideration.

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  3. Its embarrassing that Jeff has to use a rocket that is not his as Blue Origin has been an epic failure. They have got nothing into orbit, yet been in business more years than SpaceX.

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  4. "A satellite (singular, not plural)" – And it's not a competition as long as Amazon refuses to use Falcon 9s. Falcon's are going up what, I think they just reached 10 launches in a month? Not sure the rest of the EU/US launch companies combined could even do 1 every 2 months, nevermind multiple in a month.

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