Amazon, Atlas V and ULA
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Space.com |
Amazon's first big batch of Project Kuiper broadband satellites will take flight today (April 9), and you can watch the action live.
U.S. News & World Report |
which are expected to eventually rival Elon Musk's Starlink system, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 9, 2025.
Daily Journal |
Weather prevented a rocket carrying the first batch of Amazon satellites designed to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink from lifting off Wednesday, in a setback for the planned Project Kuiper network.
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What time is liftoff? ULA's Atlas V should be visible outside of Florida pending weather. Did your city, state make the rocket launch visibility map?
The launch is scheduled for April 9, with a window between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. EDT, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Mighty ULA Atlas V rocket with 5 solid boosters will launch first batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites to low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral
This evening launch will be the second time since October 2023 to send a fully operational Kuiper craft skyward and the second of any type for the program: An Atlas V lofted two prototype Kuiper satellites.
Mighty ULA Atlas V rocket with 5 solid boosters will launch first batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites to low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral
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Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPACE) and United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a U.S. Space Force rocket launch contract worth billions of dollars to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive satellites into space over the next several years,