Amazon has launched the first of its Kuiper satellites. Project Kuiper is intended to offer an alternative to Starlink. As competition in satellite internet services

To catch up with the competition, Bezos plans to rapidly deploy the rest of the Kuiper constellation in the coming months and years.

The first 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida on Monday, kicking off the long-delayed deployment of an internet-from-space network that will rival SpaceX's Starlink.