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Amazon has made contact with its Kuiper satellites it launched into space on Friday.
According to Amazon:
We hit our first major mission milestone at 2:53 p.m. EDT when our mission operations center in Redmond, Washington, confirmed first contact with KuiperSat-2. This is when the satellite and one of our telemetry, tracking, and control (TT&C) antennas established a telemetry link for the first time. We made first contact with KuiperSat-1 at 2:54 p.m. EDT.
The Atlas V rocket that carried the Kuiper satellites to space launched at 2:06PM ET on Friday. You can watch a replay of the launch on YouTube.
The latest updates from Project Kuiper’s satellite test mission
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