Slightly over a month after launch, Amazon on Thursday introduced its pair of prototype web satellites have been absolutely efficiently in operations and testing.

“We have been in a position to validate all the things and get all the info that we want,” Undertaking Kuiper Vice President of Expertise Rajeev Badyal informed CNBC. “All programs, all subsystems and all of the use-cases that we designed the satellite tv for pc for, work as designed.”

“Thirty days after launch, we’re streaming 4K movies, doing calls, and procuring on Amazon.com,” Badyal added.

Undertaking Kuiper is Amazon’s plan to construct a community of three,236 satellites in low Earth orbit to supply high-speed web entry anyplace on the earth. The corporate plans to make investments upwards of $10 billion to construct Kuiper and just lately broke floor on a $120 million pre-launch processing facility in Florida.

With the prototypes’ testing in area now full, Badyal mentioned Amazon plans to start constructing the primary manufacturing Kuiper satellites in December and launch the primary satellites for its community within the “latter a part of the primary half” of 2024.

Badyal emphasised that Amazon wasn’t certain what efficiency to count on from the prototype satellites, since “you do not know how effectively it’ll work in area.”

“They’re working brilliantly,” Badyal mentioned.

Amazon declined to share specifics across the broadband speeds that the Kuiper checks demonstrated, with Badyal solely saying that “the expertise that you just acquired was working like cable or fiber.”