After years of effort and some frustrating delays, Amazon’s dream of delivering high-speed internet to some of the remotest places on Earth quite literally got off the ground last month.
On a warm evening in April, United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket roared away from its launch pad at Florida’s Cape Canaveral, carrying the first operational satellites for Project Kuiper, the tech giant’s new broadband network.
Within minutes, the rocket had hit more than 6,400km an hour, dropping Kuiper’s 27 satellites 450km above the Earth, from where they will climb to their final orbit at 630km.
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