Jeff Bezos' Project Kuiper said Wednesday it is planning to launch 27 satellites April 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. It's the project's first full batch of the internet connection satellites.

Amazon and United Launch Alliance set April 9 as the date for the first launch of full-scale satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper network.

Amazon's first big batch of Project Kuiper broadband satellites will lift off a week from now, if all goes according to plan.

Amazon is launching 27 satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) next week, kicking off its years-in-the-making plan to set up a massive constellation and deliver internet access anywhere on the globe – similar to SpaceX's Starlink service.

Amazon's Project Kuiper expects to launch more than two dozen LEO satellites by mid-April and start offering service later this year, setting up a duel with

Amazon plans to launch its first 27 Kuiper satellites on April 9, aiming to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink. Meanwhile, dinosaur footprints discovered on the Isle of Skye provide insight into Jurassic life,

Amazon in 2022 booked 83 rocket launches from ULA, France’s Arianespace and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space company, snagging the industry’s biggest ever launch deal as it prepared to begin Kuiper deployment. The company launched two prototype satellites in 2023 for tests it called successful. — Joey Roulette, (c) 2025 Reuters

The first of 3,200 Project Kuiper satellites blast off next week.