It gets better: > Amazon has confirmed it now plans to launch the first two test satellites for the company's Kuiper broadband network on a United Launch Allia

It gets better: > Amazon has confirmed it now plans to launch the first two test satellites for the company's Kuiper broadband network on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket as soon as next month, shifting the payloads off of the inaugural flight of ULA's new Vulcan rocket. As the Vulcan also uses Jeff's BE-4 engine. > Amazon needs to deploy half of its 3,236 satellites by July 2026, a deadline to maintain network authorization from the FCC. Not gonna happen. We can't even call it space grift, as nothing is ever going to make space. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/amazons-first-internet-satellites-will-launch-on-atlas-v-rocket-not-vulcan/ https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/amazons-first-internet...