{"id":49316,"date":"2025-04-21T20:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-reschedules-amazon-kuiper-launch-for-april-28\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T20:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:48:41","slug":"ula-reschedules-amazon-kuiper-launch-for-april-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-reschedules-amazon-kuiper-launch-for-april-28\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Reschedules Amazon Kuiper Launch for April 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>United Launch Alliance<\/b> (ULA) is now planning for the first full-scale launch for <strong>Amazon<\/strong> Project Kuiper on Monday April 28, at 7 p.m. ET. The mission was set to launch earlier this month on April 9, but was scrubbed due to weather.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas V launch will be the first full-scale launch of Amazon\u2019s broadband constellation and it will launch 27 satellites to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). Kuiper will provide internet areas with little to no broadband access. It will be a competitor to SpaceX\u2019s Starlink and the OneWeb constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ULA previously launched two prototype satellites for Amazon, which demonstrated two-way video calls and validated onboard optical inter-satellite links. The prototype satellites have since been de-orbited.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said it has rolled out improvements over the prototype satellites, including phased array antennas, processors, solar arrays, propulsion systems, and optical inter-satellite links.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amazon says the company expects to begin delivering services to customers later this year.&nbsp; Amazon faces an FCC deadline to have half of the 3,232-satellite constellation launched by July 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Launch Alliance (ULA) is now planning for the first full-scale launch for Amazon Project Kuiper on Monday April 28, at 7 p.m. ET. The mission was set to launch earlier this month on April 9, but was scrubbed due to weather.&nbsp; The Atlas V launch will be the first full-scale launch of Amazon\u2019s broadband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49317,"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-49316","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\/49316"}],"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=49316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}