Categories: Broadband, Hot Topics, Networks, Operators, Rural Telecoms, Satellites, Telecoms, Ryan Daws is a senior editor at TechForge Media with over a decade of experience in crafting compelling narratives and making complex topics accessible. His articles and interviews with industry leaders have earned him recognition as a key influencer by organisations like Onalytica. Under his leadership, publications have been praised by analyst firms such as Forrester for their excellence and performance. Connect with him on X (@gadget_ry), Bluesky (@gadgetry.bsky.social), and/or Mastodon (@gadgetry@techhub.social) Just when Amazon was ready to send its newest batch of Kuiper internet satellites into space, a rocket issue brought everything to a halt. The launch was all set for Monday afternoon, bright and early, from sunny Cape Canaveral. But with only about 30 minutes to go before the rocket was due to blast off, the folks at United Launch Alliance (ULA) hit the brakes. They noticed something unusual: a part of the booster engine, on their Atlas V rocket, was getting a bit too hot. ULA hasn’t given a new launch date just yet, but they’ve promised to let us know as soon as they figure things out. LAUNCH STATUS UPDATE: The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 carrying Amazon’s second Project Kuiper mission, Kuiper 2, is delayed due to an engineering observation of an elevated purge temperature within the booster engine. The team will evaluate the hardware, and…