USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida Amazon is planning to deploy another 24 Kuiper satellites into orbit as early as Wednesday, July 16 from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX is one of multiple companies Amazon has contracted to serve as a launch service provider on its Kuiper deployments. Amazon's Project Kuiper intends to one day provide high-speed internet to customers around the world - a direct challenge to the Starlink constellation. When is the next Amazon satellite rocket launch? Amazon is planning to deploy another 24 Kuiper satellites into orbit as early as Wednesday, July 16, from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission is named KF-01 because it is the first Kuiper launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 – one of the world's most active rockets. As of Tuesday, July 15, a 27-minute launch window was scheduled to open at 2:18 a.m. ET Wednesday, July 16. If needed, a backup launch opportunity is available at 1:57 a.m. ET Thursday, July 17, according to SpaceX. Once SpaceX's Falcon 9 deploys the satellites at 289 miles above Earth, Amazon's Project Kuiper team will take control from an operations center in Redmond, Washington, and raise them to an altitude of about 391 miles, according to Amazon. A successful delivery would bring the number of Kuiper satellites deployed to low-Earth orbit to 78. Why is SpaceX launching Amazon satellites into orbit? SpaceX is one of multiple companies Amazon has contracted to serve as a launch service provider on its Kuiper deployments. For instance, the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, delivered the first 54 Kuiper satellites into low-Earth orbit across two launches on its Atlas V rocket. A total of 80 Kuiper launches are anticipated in the years ahead, the majority of which will use the ULA's Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur rockets.