Amazon to Start Churning Out Kuipers by Year's End

Amazon's Kuiper prototype satellites launched earlier this month (see 2310110007) "are stable in orbit ... and communicating across all links from Earth to space and space to Earth," the company said Monday. It said commercial-scale satellite production will start by year end, with the first to be launched in the first half of 2024 and beta testing with early commercial customers in the second half.