CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket is set to launch Friday afternoon from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The two-hour launch window opens at 2 p.m.
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Friday’s launch is the Protoflight mission for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, an “initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit,” according to Amazon’s website.
“The Protoflight launch is the first mission in a broader partnership between ULA and Amazon to help deploy Project Kuiper’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. Amazon will use nine launches of the Atlas V rocket and 38 launches of Vulcan Centaur to deploy its satellites,” ULA said on its website.
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News 6 will stream the launch live at the top of this story.
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