Amazon Signs Contract with United Launch Alliance for 38 Project Kuiper Launches on Vulcan Centaur
CENTENNIAL, Colo., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced today that Amazon has selected its next-generation Vulcan rocket for 38 launches supporting deployment for its ambitious Project Kuiper, Amazon's initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 advanced satellites in low Earth orbit.
- CENTENNIAL, Colo., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced today that Amazon has selected its next-generation Vulcan rocket for 38 launches supporting deployment for its ambitious Project Kuiper, Amazon's initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 advanced satellites in low Earth orbit.
- We are honored to be entrusted with the majority of Amazon's launches with a total of 47 missions, including the nine Atlas launches already on contract," said Tory Bruno, ULA's president and CEO.
- The Vulcan missions will launch from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
- For more information on ULA, visit the ULA website at www.ulalaunch.com , or call the ULA Launch Hotline at 1-877-ULA-4321 (852-4321).