Amazon has announced that it is investing $120 million in building a processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its thousands of planned Kuiper internet satellites, reported by Reuters.
The project Kuiper is designed to provide fast and affordable broadband globally, with a planned network of 3,200 low Earth-orbiting satellites.
The Kuiper internet network is expected to complement Amazon’s web services powerhouse. Amazon’s Kuiper satellites will launch from the Florida facility into space after being manufactured at the Kuiper project’s primary plant in Redmond, Washington.
The construction of the site began in January and plans to complete it by the end of 2024, said Steve Metayer, Amazon’s vice president of Kuiper Production Operations. The aim is to ship the first batch of satellites to the facility for processing in the first half of 2025, he added.
