Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites finally made it into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket after more than a week of weather-related delays. The rocket departed Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday, the 13th of October, at 9:58 p.m. local time.

The 24 broadband internet satellites are part of a planned constellation considered to be a rival service to Starlink, which already has had more than 90 missions this year to bring its satellites into space. Monday's Kuiper Project launch brings that constellation's total to 153 such satellites in space. Ultimately, 3,236 are expected to be deployed at three altitudes of low earth orbit - 590 km, 610 km and 630 km.

Meanwhile, China has been building its own counterpart projects, which translate into English as the "National Network" and the "Thousand Sails". Both of these planned networks are expected to contain about 13,000 satellites apiece.