| ▲ | umeshunni 14 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why do you think Kuiper is dead in the water? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | starik36 9 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not sure if they are dead in the water or not. However, they have until July 30, 2026 to deploy half of their fleet or they lose the FCC granted frequencies. The fleet is 3232 satellites. So far they launched 2 test satellites. They contracted most of the launches to either new rockets or ones in development, like New Glenn, Ariane 6, ULA Vulcan. They actually had to contract three Falcon 9 launches to help out with that. In reality, I think SpaceX will end up launching a lot more than that. Unless FCC is willing to be lenient, 50% of the satellites will be hard to accomplish by the deadline. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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