ASSUMING THE climate co-operates—thunderstorms have already triggered the abandonment of 1 launch, on April ninth—sooner or later within the coming days Amazon will get itself into the area enterprise. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket is on the launchpad in Florida, carrying the primary batch of 27 satellites for Amazon’s new “Kuiper” satellite-internet system. The mighty e-commerce agency hopes to ship “high-speed, low-latency web to just about any location on the planet”.
