New Delhi, April 29 -- Amazon has begun the full-scale deployment of its Project Kuiper satellite internet network. Now, all eyes are on the assembly of Amazon's "big new satellite-internet constellation" that, reports say, will rival SpaceX's Starlink.

Amazon, a company that Bezos started as an online bookseller decades ago, launched the first batch of 27 internet satellites for its "Kuiper" broadband internet constellation on Monday.

The mission was called Kuiper Atlas 1 or KA-01. It was launched on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket, and deployed 27 satellites at an altitude of 280 miles (450 kilometers) above Earth.

Reuters reported that the launch kicked off Amazon's long-delayed $10 billion effort to build a global int...