28 April 2025 year Fr. 23:01 (UTC) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, launch was carried out with the help of the "Atlas V 551" launch vehicle 27 KA USA "Project Kuiper (The-01)».
«Project Kuiper (The-01)» – це перша партія мега-сузір’я супутників на низькій навколоземній орбіті, which will provide broadband online access, analogue of the American Starlink system. To manage this constellation will be Kuiper Systems LLC, Amazon subsidiary. Satellites are planned to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers: at a height 590 km, 610 km and 630 km. The company has invested over 10 billions of dollars in this project.
"Project Kuiper" will be a direct competitor to SpaceX's Starlink, which has already brought to orbit beyond 7 000 satellites and serves about 4,5 a million customers in more than 100 countries. Amazon concluded contracts on 92 Running with different providers, In particular, United Launch Alliance, Arianespace і Blue Origin, To deploy his satellite group.
Atlas V — одноразова двоступенева пускова система сімейства ракет Atlas, Originally developed by Lockheed Martin, And now used United Launch Alliance (ULA), by a joint venture Lockheed Martin and Boeing. The Starozhil rocket in time in the US. The total height of the rocket with a 5-meter fairing is approx 62,5 city, diameter — 3.8 city. The standard dimensions of the payload fairing are 4 or 5 meters in diameter and different lengths. The mass of the rocket — 590 tons.
It is planned, that the "Project Kuiper" grouping will consist of 3 276 satellites.
According to the CCS