In Space Foundation address, Amazon Project Kuiper finds a way to ignore 1,538 elephants

by Peter B. de Selding

LA PLATA, Maryland — Amazon Project Kuiper hosted the Space Foundation Innovate Space Global Economic Summit on July 22 at Amazon’s HQ2 in suburban Washington. But despite being given a keynote speaking slot, it steered well clear of addressing the 1,538 elephants in the room.

That would be the number of satellites that Kuiper must deploy in the next 12 months to meet its first regulatory milestone of fielding half its Gen 1 constellation by July 30, 2026.

Kuiper’s Gen 1 consists of . . .

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