Written By: Amazon Staff

Amazon’s $140 million site at Kennedy Space Center can support up to three simultaneous launch campaigns for its satellite internet network.

Amazon is continuing its full-scale deployment of Project Kuiper, a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network that will bring fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world. We recently opened a key piece of that infrastructure: a 100,000-square-foot payload processing facility at Kennedy Space Center that prepares satellites for their upcoming launches into orbit.

We have secured more than 80 launches to deploy our initial satellite constellation, using a combination of rockets from Arianespace, Blue Origin, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance (ULA). Most of those missions will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and having our own dedicated payload processing facility nearby means we can streamline satellite processing, integration, and encapsulation work, and move more quickly from the factory to the launch pad.

The facility was operational in time to support our first mission in April and subsequent launches with SpaceX and ULA, and we’ve already completed integration for our next launch on the manifest. At full capacity, the new site will be able to process more than 100 satellites per month and support three simultaneous launch campaigns, and construction is underway on a $19.5 million secondary support site that will help us move even faster.