Amazon’s Kuiper satellite rollout hits production snarl

April 23, 2025, 12:20 pm

Amazon’s ambitious low-Earth orbit project, aimed at rivaling Starlink, faces significant production delays. The company’s struggle to scale up satellite manufacturing casts a shadow over its high-flying ambitions and intensifies competitive pressure in the burgeoning space connectivity race.

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper, the company’s initiative to launch a fleet of satellites into low-Earth orbit and beam internet connection to users, is struggling to ramp up production, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The competitor to Elon Musk’s Starlink has completed only a few dozen satellites,...

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