Amazon is spending $120 million on a building for its internet satellites
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Image: Amazon Amazon is spending $120 million to build a new facility for its Project Kuiper satellites in Florida. On Thursday, the company announced it will use the 100,000-square-foot building to prepare its internet satellites for their launch into space.
The building will be located at Space Florida's Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, where NASA once landed its Space Shuttle missions. In addition to its large square footage, the facility will also feature a 100-foot-tall bay, giving Amazon plenty of room to integrate its satellites with rockets from Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and the United Launch Alliance (ULA).
Steve Metayer, Amazon's vice president of Kuiper production operations, tells CNBC that he expects to finish...