Amazon will assemble that big constellation over more than 80 launches, the majority of them performed by the Atlas V and its successor, ULA's new Vulcan Centaur. Amazon has also procured launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin and SpaceX.

A powerful rocket sent the first batch of 27 satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband internet network into low Earth orbit,

It had been nearly seven months since United Launch Alliance had its last rocket launch, but the company’s first flight of 2025 came to fruition on Monday night.