Will Amazon Become SpaceX's Biggest Customer?

It's been just under 20 months now since Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the single biggest space launching campaign in history: A project to contract 93 separate rocket launches from a total of four separate rocket launch providers to put its Project Kuiper satellite constellation in orbit.

(Note for SpaceX fans: Yes, it's true that SpaceX has launched more rocket missions dedicated to its own Starlink satellites -- a total of 126 such launches, in fact. But SpaceX didn't actually announce how many launches it would be making).

Including a single, solitary launch of its first two test satellites with start-up ABL Space Systems (which didn't actually happen -- Amazon ended up launching with United launch Alliance instead), Amazon said it would fly:

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