Amazon.com Inc.’s first batch of production satellites reached low-Earth orbit, the biggest step to date in the company’s effort to establish a business broadcasting internet connectivity from space.

Amazon's first internet satellites are in orbit. United Launch Alliance's Atlas rocket blasted off Monday from Florida, carrying 27 of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites.

SpaceX launched a milestone mission on Sunday night (April 27). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites — including 13 with direct-to-cell capability — lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. EDT (0209 GMT on Monday, April 28).