{"id":48816,"date":"2025-07-16T23:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/amazons-third-kuiper-mission-launches-with-competitor-spacex\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T23:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:16:03","slug":"amazons-third-kuiper-mission-launches-with-competitor-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/amazons-third-kuiper-mission-launches-with-competitor-spacex\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Third Kuiper Mission Launches With Competitor SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>SpaceX<\/b> launched the third <b>Amazon<\/b> Project Kuiper mission early Wednesday morning from Cape Canaveral, marking the first <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> launch in Amazon\u2019s constellation deployment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched 24 Kuiper satellites at 2:30 a.m. EDT on July 16 from Cape Canaveral. Post-launch, Amazon confirmed its team took over command of the satellites and initial health checks are underway.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was Amazon\u2019s third launch after starting full-scale deployment in late April. It brings Project Kuiper to a count of 78 satellites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said this is the first of three Project Kuiper launches with SpaceX.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Project Kuiper will compete directly with SpaceX\u2019s Starlink constellation, which has more than 7,800 satellites in orbit. Amazon signed a launch deal with its competitor in late 2023 after a group of shareholders sued the company, alleging it did not consider SpaceX when it awarded launch contracts to other major launchers, including to Jeff Bezos\u2019 company Blue Origin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched the third Amazon Project Kuiper mission early Wednesday morning from Cape Canaveral, marking the first SpaceX launch in Amazon\u2019s constellation deployment.&nbsp; SpaceX launched 24 Kuiper satellites at 2:30 a.m. EDT on July 16 from Cape Canaveral. Post-launch, Amazon confirmed its team took over command of the satellites and initial health checks are underway.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}