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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper) - SLC-40 - CCSFS - August 11, 2025

Launch Date: August 11, 2025 Launch Time: 8:35 a.m. EDT (1225 UTC, 14:25 CEST) Launch Window: Available to 9:02 a.m. EDT. Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA Targe...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper internet service

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with a batch of 24 satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper internet service, a rival to the Starlink network. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex ...

🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Project Kuiper (KF-02)

SpaceX launch of a batch of Kuiper satellites for Amazon's high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation. Project Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that wi...

KF-02 Mission

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

Amazon Leo (KF-02)

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1091 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

Second of a three launches contract for Amazon's Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation, with 24 satellites on board. Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 11, 2025, 1:49 p.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 11, 2025, 12:35 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Aug. 11, 2025, 12:18 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 10, 2025, 5:27 p.m.

Setting GO.


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 10, 2025, 1:30 p.m.

Scrubbed for the day due to recovery zone weather.


Falcon 9

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Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
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  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
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  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Booster Info


B1091

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: August 11, 2025
Last Flight: November 2, 2025
Flights: 3
Landings Attempted: 3
Landings Successful: 3

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1091 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 1st flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at A Shortfall of Gravitas.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 714 Failures: 15 Pending: 129

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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NASASpaceflight

B1091 “A Heavy Core in Falcon 9 Clothing”

SpaceX’s recent launch involved another successful landing of its Falcon 9 booster, but this time… The post B1091 “A Heavy Core in Falcon 9 Clothing” appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

Spaceflight Now

Live Coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 to make another attempt to launch Amazon Project Kuiper mission

Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida is scheduled for 8:57 a.m. EDT (1257 UTC), after three earlier attempts were scrubbed.

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

The mission, dubbed KF-02, is the fourth flight to date of Project Kuiper satellites. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 10:01 a.m. EDT (1401 UTC).

NASASpaceflight

Launch Roundup: Vulcan and Electron to launch between Falcon 9 missions

Four rockets are scheduled to launch from the U.S. this week. SpaceX is planning to… The post Launch Roundup: Vulcan and Electron to launch between Falcon 9 missions appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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