Stock Score Locked: Edge Members Only Benzinga Rankings give you vital metrics on any stock – anytime. Unlock Rankings Move your 401k to Robinhood and get a 3% match on deposits. Get Started "We have an ambitious plan to begin Project Kuiper's full-scale production launches and early customer pilots next year, and this new facility will play a critical role in helping us deliver on that timeline," said Steve Metayer, vice president of Kuiper Production Operations. Project Kuiper will begin satellite production at a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Kirkland, Washington, by 2023. The 100,000-square-foot facility features a 100-foot tall high bay clean room to allow room for the payload fairing of new heavy-lift rockets like Blue Origin's New Glenn and ULA's Vulcan Centaur. Project Kuiper is Amazon's planned constellation of 3,236 low-Earth satellites to blanket the globe, similar to Elon Musk helmed SpaceX's Starlink broadband mega constellation, which has already launched roughly 4,000 satellites into low-Earth orbit. Amazon has secured 77 heavy-lift launch vehicles to deploy its satellite constellation, most of which will come from U.S. launch providers Blue Origin and ULA and launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Price Action: AMZN shares traded higher by 0.27% at $130.31 on the last check Friday. AMZN