2029 Licensing Web Services 
GeekWire
APRIL 11, 2024
The plan calls for sending 3,232 satellites (down slightly from the originally planned 3,236) into low Earth orbit by 2029. Under the terms of the Federal Communications Commission’s license, half of that total would have to be deployed by mid-2026. Amazon is investing more than $10 billion to get Kuiper off the ground.
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
But Project Kuiper aims to take advantage of synergies with Amazon’s other business lines, ranging from online retail sales to Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Web Services. The rest would have to be launched by 2029.
GeekWire
JULY 30, 2020
Project Kuiper’s satellites are to be launched in five phases, and service would begin once Amazon launched the first 578 satellites. Under the terms of the FCC’s order, Amazon will have to launch half of its satellites by mid-2026, and the rest of them by mid-2029.
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