(Traduzione automatica) Project Kuiper è una mega costellazione di satelliti in orbita terrestre bassa che offrirà accesso a Internet a banda larga, questa costellazione sarà gestita da Kuiper Systems LLC, una filiale di Amazon. Si prevede che questa costellazione sarà composta da 3.276 satelliti. Si prevede che i satelliti saranno posizionati su 98 piani orbitali in tre strati orbitali, uno a 590 km, 610 km e 630 km di altitudine.
Ad ogni lancio di Ariane 6 verranno trasportati 35-40 satelliti.
Timelapse video showing the central core for the Ariane 6 rocket arriving at the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. [..] Four automated vehicles transported the Ariane 6 central core from the launcher assembly building to the launch pad that is about 800 meters away on 21 January 2026. Once at the launch pad, choreographed movements by two of the automated vehicles and a crane equipped with a lifting beam, raised the central core to its vertical launch position and placed it on the launch table. It was then rotated so that the stages’ fluid connections were positioned opposite the launch pad umbilicals that will supply the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel for launch. The four boosters used on this flight were connected to the central core on the launch pad the next day.
