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Amazon takes on Musk’s Starlink with launch of first internet satellites

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Satellites are the first of 3,236 that Amazon plans to send into low- Earth orbit for Project Kuiper .

The $ 10bn effort announced in 2019 to beam broadband internet globally for consumers, businesses and governments customers.

Amazon has positioned the service as a boon to rural areas where connectivity is sparse or nonexistent.

The mission to deploy the first operational satellites has been delayed more than a year .

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