Blue Origin, a company founded by Amazon Executive Jeff Bezos, was one of three firms signed on by the company.
The regional headquarters of Amazon is in the Silicon Valley town of Sunnyvale.
Blue Origin, Arianespace and the United Launch Alliance will be launching the company's Project Kuiper.
Amazon said it secured up to 83 launches to send low-flying earth satellites into space over a five-year period to deploy most of the project.
More than $10 billion. That's how much Amazon has said it will invest in over time.
Amazon will launch a large broadband satellite internet constellation in order to provide access to broadband internet in areas that are not currently accessible. In order for Amazon to deploy 3,236 broadband satellites, at least half of them must be launched by 2026 and the rest by 2029. Amazon has yet to deploy the satellites, although it has plans for two launches of prototype satellites in the fourth quarter of 2022. The new satellite contracts that Amazon is investing billions of dollars in, according to a spokesman for the company. The project is similar to the Starlink Program, which is set up to provide satellite internet access. According to data maintained by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Starlink has already launched 2,335 satellites.
Amazon's Project Kuiper books up to 83 rockets to launch its internet-beaming satellites.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon would spend billions on space launches.
Amazon is going to add 3,000 more satellites.
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