CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — The United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched Amazon’s Kuiper 2 mission early Monday morning.
This comes after the first launch attempt was scrubbed due to an issue that came up.
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- Project Kuiper launched 27 satellites
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3,2,1…liftoff! Atlas V powers off the launch pad carrying the next Amazon satellites for the Project Kuiper broadband constellation! pic.twitter.com/lkEqqlOGFZ
— ULA (@ulalaunch) June 23, 2025
The Atlas V 551 rocket took off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday at 6:54 a.m. ET as it sent up nearly 30 Kuiper satellites, stated ULA.
The 45th Weather Squadron gave an 80% chance of good liftoff conditions, with the only concern being the cumulus cloud rule.
The 196-foot Atlas V 551 rocket’s first-stage booster does not land on a droneship or landing zone, which is what the more familiar SpaceX rocket — the Falcon 9 — does. Instead, it will separate and fall into the Atlantic Ocean, where it will be picked up.
The first attempt and about the mission
ULA was forced to scrub the mission on Monday, June 16, after engineers noticed “an elevated purge temperature within the booster engine.”
Like the SpaceX-company Starlink and the satellites that orbit Earth, Amazon’s Project Kuiper will have its own low-Earth orbit satellite network. (Just 280 miles/450 kilometers above our little round planet.)
It will provide internet to customers throughout the world.
Project Kuiper launched 27 satellites on Monday, which is the same number it had launched in April during its first official mission.
They mean that Amazon will have a total of 54 satellites after Monday’s launch, with the goal of having more than 3,200, the company stated.
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