Y - Will Amazon Become SpaceX's Biggest Customer?
2023-12-17 07:07:00 ET
It's been just under 20 months now since Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the single biggest space launching campaign in history : A project to contract 93 separate rocket launches from a total of four separate rocket launch providers to put its Project Kuiper satellite constellation in orbit.
(Note for SpaceX fans : Yes, it's true that SpaceX has launched more rocket missions dedicated to its own Starlink satellites -- a total of 126 such launches, in fact. But SpaceX didn't actually announce how many launches it would be making).
Including a single, solitary launch of its first two test satellites with start-up ABL Space Systems (which didn't actually happen -- Amazon ended up launching with United Launch Alliance instead), Amazon said it would fly:
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Will Amazon Become SpaceX's Biggest Customer?