Amazon Kuiper launches first satellites to take on SpaceX's Starlink, capitalize on anti-Musk fervor

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is on the launch pad carrying Amazon's Project Kuiper internet network satellites, which are expected to eventually rival Elon Musk's Starlink system, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 9, 2025. Steve Nesius | Reuters In a social media post last month, Elon Musk had a message for Poland's foreign minister, who had suggested that his country would seek alternatives to SpaceX's Starlink if the satellite internet service "proves to be an unreliable provider." "Be quiet, small man," Musk wrote on March 9, in response to the comment from Radoslaw Sikorski, who began working for the Polish government in the 1990s. "You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink." Poland has been paying for Starlink in war-torn Ukraine, where the service has been a vital tool in the fight against Russia. But Sikorski suggest ... Read full article.