Two Amazon Smallsats Expected To Ride Solo On Atlas V

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LOGAN, Utah—Amazon is using one of nine Atlas V missions purchased from United Launch Alliance (ULA) to deploy caches of Kuiper broadband satellites to launch just a pair of prototypes. The spacecraft originally were to fly on separate missions on startup ABL Space Systems’ RS1, a dedicated small...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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