Share on Pocket Amazon's ambitious satellite program, Project Kuiper, has been delayed again after a technical glitch prevented the scheduled launch of 27 internet satellites on Monday. The rocket operator, United Launch Alliance (ULA), declared it would stand down about 30 minutes from liftoff at Cape Canaveral, Florida, due to "an elevated purge temperature within the booster engine" of its Atlas V rocket. The launch, originally set for Friday but delayed because of inclement weather, now waits for a new date, which ULA says will be made public shortly. Project Kuiper is Amazon's Answer to Starlink Tom Cooper/Getty Images for Amazon If you're having a hard time figuring out the exact problem behind the delay, it's this simple: the engine overheated, and engineers must analyze the reason before continuing. For those unfamiliar, Project Kuiper is Amazon's multi-billion-dollar project to establish a world-spanning satellite-based broadband service, straight competition for Elon Musk's Starlink. Its objective is to bring high-speed, low-cost internet to remote and underserved areas where traditional infrastructure is lacking or unreliable. Amazon will deploy a constellation of 3,236 low Earth orbit satellites by 2029. It will have at least 1,000 in orbit by the end of 2025, sufficient to start its broadband service in small areas later in the year.