{"id":217326,"date":"2025-10-11T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217326\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:29:06","slug":"spacexs-amazon-project-kuiper-mission-moves-back-to-sunday-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217326\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s Amazon Project Kuiper mission moves back to Sunday from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX crews have again postponed a Falcon 9 rocket launch attempt from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/2025\/10\/08\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-to-launch-amazon-satellites-from-cape-canaveral-space-force-station-florida\/86561710007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an Amazon Project Kuiper internet satellite mission.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/2025\/10\/09\/spacex-launch-day-heres-information-on-todays-amazon-satellite-launch-from-cape-canaveral-florida\/86579537007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rough seas offshore along the Eastern Seaboard,<\/a> SpaceX is now targeting 8:29 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, for liftoff from Launch Complex 40. Mission: Deploy Amazon&#8217;s 28 satellites into low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>This KF-03 mission was initially planned for Thursday, Oct. 9 \u2014 but rainfall and flooding swamped the Space Coast. Then SpaceX moved the mission to Saturday night before delaying again and settling on Sunday&#8217;s target time.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Force&#8217;s 45th Weather Squadron predicted 95% odds of favorable conditions for Sunday&#8217;s nighttime liftoff try, with cumulus clouds posing a low threat. However, a low-to-moderate risk of poor booster recovery weather will remain in effect at sea for SpaceX&#8217;s drone ship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/local\/environment\/2025\/10\/08\/wind-rain-risk-flooding-this-week-brevard-county-florida\/86563006007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The National Weather Service has issued a coastal flood sdvisory<\/a>\u00a0through 4 a.m. Monday and a high rip current risk through 4 a.m. Monday for northern Brevard County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">Cape Canaveral: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/2025\/10\/01\/rocket-launch-schedule-in-october-from-cape-canaveral-and-nasa-kennedy-space-center-in-florida\/86453418007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, Blue Origin, NASA launch schedule at Cape Canaveral<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">floridatoday.com\/space<\/a>. Another easy way: <a href=\"https:\/\/profile.floridatoday.com\/newsletters\/space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to sign up for our weekly Space newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/staff\/4387025002\/rick-neale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Rick Neale<\/a>\u00a0is a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale at <a href=\"mailto:Rneale@floridatoday.com\">Rneale@floridatoday.com<\/a>. 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Journalism like this takes time and resources.\u00a0Please support it with a subscription here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX crews have again postponed a Falcon 9 rocket launch attempt from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[12300,27619,20288,24516,13715,622,19471,13538,851,13545,13558,718,6377,24030,13547,3,13470,13560,13544,79,10822,13690,193,13561,1513,27620,13546,74,1596,826,13557,2986],"class_list":["post-217326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-amazon-com","tag-canaveral","tag-cape","tag-cape-canaveral-space-force-station","tag-content","tag-fl","tag-fl-content-sharing-space","tag-force","tag-inc","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-nasa","tag-national","tag-national-weather-service","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-point","tag-science","tag-service","tag-sharing","tag-space","tag-space-technology","tag-spacex","tag-station","tag-story","tag-technology","tag-the","tag-to","tag-to-the-point","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}