Amazon’s Starlink Challenger Is Finally Heading to Orbit

April 9, 2025

Hello from Princeton, New Jersey, where cherry and magnolia trees are in bloom all over town. In this season for fresh starts, it’s fitting that Amazon is finally launching its first operational Project Kuiper internet satellites. Is it too late for Kuiper, given how far behind it is to SpaceX’s Starlink? We’ll look at that in a bit but first …