{"id":633365,"date":"2026-04-28T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633365\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:24:08","slug":"atlas-v-rocket-launches-29-amazon-internet-satellites-to-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633365\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas V rocket launches 29 Amazon internet satellites to orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched 29 of Amazon’s internet satellites on Monday night (April 27), tying its payload-weight record in the process.<\/p>\n

The Atlas V<\/a> lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> Monday at 8:53 p.m. EDT (0053 GMT on April 28).<\/p>\n

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It successfully delivered the 29 spacecraft to low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO) over the course of 10 separate deployments, which began about 21 minutes after launch and ended 16 minutes later.<\/p>\n

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ULA called Monday’s mission Amazon Leo 6, because it was the sixth that the company has flown to help build out the Amazon Leo broadband constellation in LEO.<\/p>\n

The network, a rival to SpaceX’s Starlink<\/a> internet megaconstellation, will eventually consist of more than 3,200 satellites, if all goes to plan.<\/p>\n

It will take more than 80 launches by a variety of rockets to finish assembling Amazon Leo, which used to be known as Project Kuiper. Just 10 of these liftoffs have occurred to date. The Atlas V has now flown six of them, SpaceX<\/a>‘s Falcon 9 has launched three and Arianespace’s Ariane 6<\/a> rocket has launched one.<\/p>\n

The Ariane 6’s tally will increase soon, however; it’s scheduled to launch an Amazon Leo mission from French Guiana early on Wednesday morning (April 29).<\/p>\n

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The first four Atlas V Amazon Leo missions sent 27 of the broadband satellites skyward. Amazon Leo 5, which launched on April 4<\/a>, boosted that number to 29 and set a new record for the heaviest payload ever flown by an Atlas V in the process \u2014 18 tons.<\/p>\n

Amazon Leo 6 tied that mark, as it also launched 29 Amazon Leo satellites to the final frontier.<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 10:30 p.m. ET on April 27 with news of successful launch and satellite deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched 29 of Amazon’s internet satellites on Monday night (April 27),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-633365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}