A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX 's Starlink 6-75 mission Thursday night (May 1) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) in Florida. The Space Coast liftoff occurred at 9:51 p.m. EDT (0151 GMT on May 2) from CCSFS's Launch Complex-40 (LC-40) .

Project Kuiper is the name for Amazon’s planned satellite internet service. The company intends to offer fast, affordable broadband by launching its own network of thousands of low Earth orbit satellites – the first of which have now been successfully launched.

Australian telcos, government, the NBN and individual consumers will be the beneficiaries of Amazon’s long-awaited launch of its first Project Kuiper satellites. Twenty-seven low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites were released into space from a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket early Tuesday AEST.