Amazon’s Kuiper 1 internet satellites get new April 28 launch date on Atlas V rocket after delay
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V Rocket is fuel to fly during the first launch attempt for Internet satellites at Amazon’s Kuiper 1 online at Cape Canaveral Space Force in Florida on April 9, 2025. | Credit: United’s launch alliance
The first online fleet in Amazon has a new launch date at the end.
After weeks of delay, it is scheduled to raise the first 27 satellites for the Amazon’s Kuper Internet Constelle project Atlas V Rocket On April 28, the missile builder United Launch Alliance (Ula) announced during the weekend. Laffoff was appointed at 7 pm EST (2300 GMT) from Cape Capeeral Space Station in Florida.
“This launch begins a new chapter in the commercial launch industry with Amazon Partners with Ula to present the first batch of advanced satellites to the low Earth orbit (LEO),” Ula He wrote on Friday afternoon (April 18).
The task, called Koyber 1It is the first of 83 at the end of the Amazon Kuiper BroadBand Constellation project, which aims to place more than 3200 satellites in orbit to provide a high -speed internet from space. While Kuiper 1 will fly on the ULA, Amazon, Amazon Kuiper payments will also be launched On the ARIANESPACE ‘ARIANE 6 Rocket, the new ULA and New Glenn Rocket Blue Origin. Amazon Two satellites Koyber In 2023 to increase the theater for the Kuper 1 mission.
First First try to launch Kuiper 1 Amazon on April 9, but delayed due to the weather. Then the company said that it was waiting for an opening available on the eastern scale (used in launch operations from Florida) from the United States Space.
“Availability”, CEO of Ula Tory Bruno Books on x When asked several times What was standing Launch.
ULA has a two -hour launch window for Kuper 1 for Amazon on April 28.
