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,

Amazon is eager to get its first Project Kuiper satellites into orbit to set it on a course to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink service.