Also pictured, from left, are Amazon Kuiper vice president of public policy Brian Huseman Amazon Kuiper vice president of production Steven Metayer and Space Florida President and CEO Frank DiBello. - Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel/TNS
MERRITT ISLAND, Florida — Amazon and Jeff Bezos have big plans to launch thousands of satellites from the Space Coast in an effort to play catchup and compete with Elon Musk and SpaceX’s Starlink service. To speed up the process, it’s going to build a $120 million facility to prep those satellites just miles from the launch pad. The company announced it has agreed to expand into Florida with its Project Kuiper, the name for its future broadband satellite network, by setting up a 100,000-square-foot processing facility at a nearly 80-acre site at the former Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy S...
