Kennedy Space Center, Florida — According to state and local development sources, Amazon plans to invest $19,500,000.00 to build out 42,000 square feet of new space in Kennedy Space Center. The company plans to occupy the new space in Kennedy Space Center, on or about October 1, 2025. According to the company website Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of more than 3,000 satellites in low Earth orbit. Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper is a long-term initiative. Our FCC license requires that we deploy and operate at least half of our satellite constellation by July 2026. We launched our first two prototype satellites on October 6, 2023, and after achieving 100% success with that mission, we expect to begin deploying our satellite constellation in 2024 and rolling out commercial service in 2025. Project Kuiper is based out of a state-of-the-art facility in Redmond, Washington. The space is the size of more than four football fields and serves as our primary headquarters for research and development. It also handles our initial satellite manufacturing and qualification. In 2023, Project Kuiper announced a dedicated satellite production facility in Kirkland, Washington, to expand manufacturing capacity to build up to five satellites per day. Additionally, Project Kuiper began construction on a satellite-processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, which we will use to prepare and integrate Kuiper satellites with rockets from Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance (ULA) ahead of launches. Amazon has a team of more than 2,000 world-class engineers, programmers, and support personnel helping deliver on the vision for Project Kuiper. Team members joined from many different industries, such as space and aerospace, wireless technology, and computer networking. They work out of our labs in Redmond and Kirkland in Washington state, as well as in cities across the U.S., like New York City, Austin, Denver, San Diego, and Washington, D.C., and internationally.

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