{"id":609636,"date":"2026-04-27T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609636\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:23:12","slug":"watch-atlas-v-rocket-launch-29-amazon-internet-satellites-to-orbit-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609636\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Atlas V rocket launch 29 Amazon internet satellites to orbit today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rocket Launch: Amazon Leo 6 – YouTube
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch 29 of Amazon’s internet satellites to orbit tonight (April 27), and you can watch it live.<\/p>\n

The Atlas V<\/a> is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> tonight during a 29-minute window that opens at 8:52 p.m. EDT (0052 GMT on April 28).<\/p>\n

You can watch it live here at Space.com courtesy of ULA, or directly via the company<\/a>. Coverage will begin about 20 minutes before launch.<\/p>\n

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on April 4, 2026, carrying 29 satellites for the Amazon Leo broadband constellation. (Image credit: ULA)<\/p>\n

ULA calls tonight’s mission Amazon Leo 6, because it will be the sixth that the company flies to help build out the Amazon Leo broadband constellation in low Earth orbit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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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 nine of these liftoffs have occurred to date. The Atlas V has flown five 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 Tuesday morning (April 28).<\/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 will likely tie that mark, as it is also launching 29 Amazon Leo satellites to the final frontier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocket Launch: Amazon Leo 6 – YouTube Watch On A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-609636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609636","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=609636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}