Amazon launches its satellites for global internet service to compete with SpaceX

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Amazon launches its satellites to rival Elon Musk-led SpaceX global internet services.

On Friday afternoon In Cape Canaveral, Florida, ULA ( United Launch Alliance ) Atlas V take off containing test satellites. 

The main aim of this Project is to improve global coverage of the internet with 3,236 satellites around the Earth.

Amazon, an e-commerce giant will start internet services in 2024. 

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon is trying to compete with Elon Musk.

Bezos has a space company called Blue Origin. To Compete with SpaceX, Jeff Bezos found that he could take this opportunity in Global Internet Services as demand is already high.

Elon Musk SpaceX flew its test Starlink satellites back in 2018 and then they operationalized its satellites in 2019.

Since then SpaceX has launched more than 5,000 Starlinks from Florida and California.

Amazon has a Plan to invest $US10 billion dollars into Project Kuiper, which is the current project for deploying satellites for global internet coverage around the globe.

The Federal Communications Commission stipulated that at least half of the planned satellites be operating by 2026 and all of them by 2029.