{"id":940991,"date":"2025-06-24T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940991"},"modified":"2025-06-24T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:57:06","slug":"amazon-launches-27-kuiper-satellites-to-compete-with-elon-musks-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/24\/amazon-launches-27-kuiper-satellites-to-compete-with-elon-musks-starlink\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon launches 27 Kuiper satellites, to compete with Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has launched 27 more satellites under its Project Kuiper on Monday (June 23), taking another step toward building a large network of internet satellites in low Earth orbit. The launch puts Amazon in closer competition with Elon Musk-owned SpaceX\u2019s Starlink, which currently leads the satellite internet market. The satellites were launched aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 6:54 a.m. ET (4:24pm IST).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have ignition and lift off of United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying satellites for Amazon\u2019s Project Kuiper internet constellation,\u201d said ULA engineer Ben Chilton during a livestream of the launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has launched 27 more satellites under its Project Kuiper on Monday (June 23), taking another step toward building a large network of internet satellites in low Earth orbit. The launch puts Amazon in closer competition with Elon Musk-owned SpaceX\u2019s Starlink, which currently leads the satellite internet market. The satellites were launched aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 6:54 a.m. ET (4:24pm IST). \u201cWe have ignition and lift off of United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying satellites for Amazon\u2019s Project Kuiper internet constellation,\u201d said ULA engineer Ben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}