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We've designed some of the most advanced communications satellites ever built, and every launch is an opportunity to add more capacity and coverage to our network,
said Rajeev Badyal, vice president of Project Kuiper We had a nice smooth countdown, beautiful weather, beautiful liftoff, and Atlas V is on its way to orbit to take those 27 Kuiper satellites, put them on their way and really start this new era in internet connectivity,
Caleb Weiss, a systems engineer at ULA, said on the livestream following the launch It will be a primarily commercial system, but there will be defense uses for these LEO constellations, no doubt,
he added, referring to low-Earth orbit There's room for lots of winners there. I predict Starlink will continue to be successful, and I predict Kuiper will be successful as well,
No matter how the mission unfolds, this is just the start of our journey, and we have all the pieces in place to learn and adapt as we prepare to launch again and again over the coming years,
I certainly imagine that NATO and Ukraine are at least quietly dancing for joy about the idea of having someone other than Elon Musk in the position of providing capacity,
Kuiper is going to have a long way to go to catch up to be able to serve a significant part of the market,
Craig Moffett, senior managing director at the research firm MoffettNathanson, told CNN There’s a big difference between launching two satellites and launching 3,000 satellites,
said Rajeev Badyal, an Amazon executive in charge of Kuiper, in a promotional video ahead of the launch
