Amazon is investing $120 million in a satellite processing hub in Florida

Amazon is investing $120 million in a satellite processing hub in Florida.



The 100,000-square-foot structure is part of Amazon's pledged $10 billion investment in its Kuiper project, a network of 3,200 low-Earth-orbiting satellites aimed to beam broadband internet globally.

Amazon and state officials announced Friday that they are constructing a $120 million processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida for their thousands of planned Kuiper internet satellites.

The 100,000-square-foot structure is part of Amazon's pledged $10 billion investment in its Kuiper project, a network of 3,200 low-Earth-orbiting satellites aimed to beam broadband internet globally.


The Kuiper internet network, which will primarily compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX's Starlink, is planned to supplement Amazon's online services giant.

The Florida facility will employ 50 people and serve as the final stop for Amazon's Kuiper satellites before they are sent into space after being built at the Kuiper project's core plant in Redmond, Washington. The satellites will be put into rocket payload farings, the protective casing that surrounds satellites that sit atop the rocket, in a ten-story-tall facility.

Amazon started building the site in January and expects to finish it by late 2024, with the first batch of satellites arriving for processing in the first half of 2025, according to Steve Metayer, Amazon's vice president of Kuiper Production Operations.

Amazon plans to launch its first mass-produced satellites in early 2024, beginning off a race to put half of the network in orbit by 2026, as mandated by US regulators.

The corporation has received 77 heavy-lift rocket launch contracts totaling billions of dollars, the majority of which came from the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance and Jeff Bezos' space enterprise Blue Origin.

Amazon plans to launch its first many prototype satellites to space by the end of the time, followed by launches of its first mass- produced satellites in 2024. 
 
 Testing the service with commercial and government guests will begin that time, the company said. 
Anna Farrar, a spokesman for Space Florida, a state- funded reality to attract space businesses to Florida, said Amazon is eligible to admit finances under a state entitlement for transportation- related systems but “ has not entered any backing to date. ” 

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