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\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, June 15, 2023. REUTERS\/Gonzalo Fuentes\/File Photo<\/span>
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By Joey Roulette<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon (NASDAQ:) is building a $120 million processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its thousands of planned Kuiper internet satellites, the company and state officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

The 100,000 square-foot building is part of the roughly $10 billion that Amazon has vowed to invest in its Kuiper project, a planned network of 3,200 low Earth-orbiting satellites designed to beam broadband internet globally.<\/p>\n

The Kuiper internet network, which will largely compete with Starlink from Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, is expected to complement Amazon\u2019s web services powerhouse.<\/p>\n

The Florida facility will employ 50 staff and be a last stop for Amazon’s Kuiper satellites before they go to space, after being manufactured at the Kuiper project’s primary plant in Redmond, Washington. A ten-story-tall room will allow the satellites to be fitted into rocket payload farings, the protective shell around satellites that sit atop the rocket.<\/p>\n

Amazon began construction of the site in January and plans to complete it by late 2024, with a target to ship the first batch of satellites to the facility for processing in the first half of 2025, said Steve Metayer, Amazon’s vice president of Kuiper Production Operations.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amazon aims to launch its first mass-produced satellites by early 2024, kicking off a sprint to deploy half of the network into orbit by 2026, as required by U.S. regulators.<\/p>\n

The company has bagged 77 heavy-lift rocket launch contracts, potentially worth billions of dollars combined, mostly from the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance and Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin.<\/p>\n

Amazon plans to launch its first few prototype satellites to space by the end of the year, followed by launches of its first mass-produced satellites in 2024. <\/p>\n

Testing the service with corporate and government customers will begin that year, the company said.<\/p>\n

Anna Farrar, a spokeswoman for Space Florida, a state-funded entity to attract space businesses to Florida, said Amazon is eligible to receive funds under a state grant for transportation-related projects but “has not received any funding to date.” <\/p>\n

(This story has been corrected to fix the launch dates of the satellites in paragraphs 5 and 6) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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