New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- Amazon's Project Kuiper, in the race to offer satellite internet service in India, is aiming for a launch next year, though it trails rivals Starlink, OneWeb and Jio Satellite, two people aware of the matter said.

The delay in India foray is because the Amazon arm is still to have a sufficient satellite constellation to launch the services commercially and secure necessary licence and approval in the country, they said, requesting not to be identified. The company is yet to get its network and ground system designs to comply with a set of security conditions laid out by the Indian government.

The company continues to be in discussion with the government on compliance and is expected to complete the formalities by t...