Amazon has increased its number of low-Earth orbit satellites to over 300 following two launches within the past week. However, the company is significantly lagging behind the requirements of its U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license. This was reported by Ixbt.com xabar beradi.
On April 30, an Ariane 64 rocket was launched from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. Two hours later, it successfully deployed 32 Amazon LEO satellites into their target orbit at an altitude of 465 kilometers.
Prior to this, on April 27, an Atlas 5 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying 29 units into space. As a result of these flights, the total number of satellites in the Amazon constellation has reached 302.
This represents less than 10 percent of the planned 3,232 units.
The company is required to have half of its entire constellation in orbit by July 30. In January, citing a short-term shortage of launch capacity, Amazon requested that the regulator extend this deadline by 2 years or cancel it entirely.
In March, Amazon announced its intention to accelerate the deployment of the network and increase the number of annual launches to over 20. The company has also booked 10 additional flights on the Falcon 9 rocket.
The next launch is scheduled for May 22 using an Atlas 5 rocket.
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