Amazon’s new MK30 drone is set to fly Prime Air deliveries in 2024

The MK30 drone will have the same purpose and goals as its predecessors: it will fly vertically hundreds up into the air, autonomously maneuver, land and deliver packages of up to five pounds. The MK30 will be lighter and smaller than the current hexagonal MK27-2 drone, and it will be put through “rigorous evaluation by national aerospace authorities like the Federal Aviation Administration to prove its safety and reliability,” as written In a press release.

Amazon isn’t giving up on its decade-long efforts to widely launch its Prime Air drone delivery service; the company announced in July that College Station, Texas will be the next site of its testing., where it’s partnering with the city and Texas A&M University doing test flights with its current drone prototype, the MK27-2.

This comes at a time Amazon’s devices unit is Operational losses of billions of dollarsThe company is trying to reduce costs and may look to slow down the development of new features for the Alexa AI assistant. The company is now evaluating how to optimize costs, and we don’t yet know if Prime Air can get more hang time.