Project Kuiper will be a constellation of internet satellites intended to provide high-speed data connections. Amazon’s goal is to operate more than 3,200 in the years to come.

Amazon and United Launch Alliance set April 9 as the date for the first launch of full-scale satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper network.

Amazon is going into competition with SpaceX, with its Project Kuiper broadband satellite-based internet service intended to rival Starlink. The first launch of Project Kuiper satellites is scheduled for today, Wednesday April 9, and if you’d like to watch along at home then the event will be livestreamed.