Amazon announced that the company will launch a batch of satellites into space under Project Kuiper, an initiative to offer worldwide broadband internet access with thousands of satellites.

The inaugural mission, scheduled for Wednesday and slated to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, will deploy twenty-seven satellites into orbit, marking a first step toward the firm delivering “reliable internet to customers and communities around the world.”

“We’ve designed some of the most advanced communications satellites ever built,” Project Kuiper vice president Rajeev Badyal said in a statement. “We’ve done extensive testing on the ground to prepare for this first mission, but there are some things you can only learn in flight.”

The satellites will enter orbit with the assistance of an Atlas V rocket developed by United Launch Alliance. There will be more than 3,200 internet satellites in the initial constellation.

Amazon plans over eighty launches to send their satellites into orbit. The satellites on the new mission are “a significant upgrade” from the prototypes tested two years ago, with new “phased array antennas, processors, solar arrays, propulsion systems, and optical inter-satellite links.”

The satellites created by Amazon are also “coated in a dielectric mirror film unique to Kuiper that scatters reflected sunlight to help make them less visible to ground-based astronomers.”

Project Kuiper is intended to compete with Starlink, an existing satellite internet constellation made by SpaceX, the rocket company led by Elon Musk which has already launched 7,100 active internet satellites. Amazon will offer small dishes with seven-inch square designs, thereby competing with Starlink Mini, as well as larger dishes for residential and enterprise use cases.

“No matter how the mission unfolds, this is just the start of our journey, and we have all the pieces in place to learn and adapt as we prepare to launch again and again,” Badyal added.