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Although Project Kuiper faces serious competition from other companies with similar ambitions, such as SpaceX's Starlink and OneWeb. The United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket will liftoff these satellites from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida this Friday.Through this technology demonstration mission, the project team hopes to refine its satellite networking system further to supply high-speed broadband services from space.
“As the mission progresses, we will test the network from end to end, sending data back and forth between the internet, our ground gateways, the satellites, and our customer terminals,” mentioned the release.
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