{"id":191795,"date":"2025-12-14T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/191795\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:41:11","slug":"watch-atlas-v-rocket-launch-27-of-amazons-internet-satellites-to-orbit-early-dec-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/191795\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Atlas V rocket launch 27 of Amazon’s internet satellites to orbit early Dec. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rocket Launch: Atlas V Leo-4 – YouTube
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) will send another batch of Amazon’s internet satellites to orbit on Monday morning (Dec. 15), and you can watch the action live \u2014 if you’re a night owl or a very early riser.<\/p>\n

A ULA Atlas V <\/a>rocket carrying 27 Amazon Leo spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> on Monday during a 29-minute window that opens at 3:49 a.m. EST (0849 GMT).<\/p>\n

You can watch it live here at Space.com courtesy of ULA or directly via the company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches the first 27 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper (now known as Amazon Leo) internet satellites to orbit on April 28, 2025. (Image credit: United Launch Alliance)<\/p>\n

Amazon Leo, previously known as Project Kuiper, is Amazon’s planned satellite-internet megaconstellation in low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO).<\/p>\n

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The network will eventually consist of about 3,200 satellites<\/a>, which will reach orbit on more than 80 launches performed by a variety of rockets<\/a>. Six of those missions have been completed to date, lofting 153 Project Leo satellites to the final frontier. (Those numbers don’t count a test mission that carried two prototype satellites to LEO in October 2023.)<\/p>\n

Monday’s launch will be the fourth Project Leo mission for the Atlas V, a venerable and highly dependable rocket that debuted in August 2002. ULA is phasing out the Atlas V in favor of a new vehicle called Vulcan Centaur<\/a>, which has three missions under its belt to date.<\/p>\n

When it’s up and running, Project Leo will beam internet connectitvity down to people around the globe. It will compete with SpaceX’s Starlink<\/a> megaconstellation, which already provides service to customers using more than 9,000 satellites in LEO. And that number is growing all the time; SpaceX has launched more than 3,000 Starlink satellites so far in 2025 alone.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, SpaceX<\/a> is helping to build out the Project Leo network; its Falcon 9<\/a> is among the rockets that Amazon has tapped to launch the megaconstellation, along with Arianespace’s Ariane 6, Blue Origin’s New Glenn<\/a> and ULA’s Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocket Launch: Atlas V Leo-4 – YouTube Watch On United Launch Alliance (ULA) will send another batch of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-191795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}