In contrast, after last week's launch, Amazon now has just 27 operational Kuipersats. Weighing perhaps 1,260 pounds each ...

But Amazon is not alone. SpaceX, under its CEO Elon Musk, has already launched more than 7,000 flat, car-width satellites in its Starlink constellation and plans to add some 30,000 more.

the financial outlook of the business is unclear because SpaceX is a privately held company. Amazon’s analysts on Wall Street, meanwhile, are apprehensive about the company’s entrance into the ...

Amazon's Project Kuiper offers strategic independence from Elon Musk's SpaceX and big potential profits in the satellite internet market.

A powerful rocket sent the first batch of 27 satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband internet network into low Earth orbit, ...

A war of words between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump could lead to significant fallout for U.S.-led space ...

However, Amazon is also planning to contract with Arianespace, SpaceX and Blue Origin – which Bezos also owns – for orbital deliveries. SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 rocket has become one of the ...

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, two of the world’s richest individuals, compete with each other in more area than one, including ...

SpaceX has now launched Falcon 9 on 475 missions, 58 of which come this year among its three pads in Florida and California. The company is on track still to best the 134 launches it performed among ...

In October 2023, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) took one small step toward chasing SpaceX's giant leap... of building a broadband satellite internet constellation circling the Earth. On October 6 that ...

But Amazon is behind schedule. As I wrote back in December 2023, it took SpaceX 15 months to move from initial testing of its own experimental Starlink satellites to kicking off full-scale ...