This is two rounds for both United Launch Alliance and its customer, Amazon. The second atlas 5 of the year will be launched on Monday, June 23, ULA and the second batch of Amazon’s project Kuper satellites will be launched to date.
There is also another attempt to launch the mission on Monday, dubbing Kuper 2 by ULA, after a nitrogen parj issue attached to the rocket’s booster engine, which caused scrub on June 16 and the rocket was returned to the vertical integration facility to address the issue.
The liftoff for the 205-Foot-Lamba (62.5 m) rocket is currently set for the Space Launch Complex 41 to 1:25 am at the Cape Canveral Space Force Station for EDT (1725 UTC). This is the opening of a 30 -minute launch window.
Spaceflight will now start live coverage about an hour before the liveoff.
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On Sunday, the 45th weather squadron estimated the possibility of 80 percent for a favorable weather conditions at the time of launch, listing only cumulus clouds and concerns for minimal solar activity.
“Microwave imagery indicates an airmame of deep moisture going to Western Atlantic and Florida Peninsula. This weak predecessor wave will promote a high storm and shower coverage in Central Florida this afternoon, but will continue to focus on the west of I-95 instead of the activity coast,” Lailed Meteorological Officers. “Coastal rainfall will be the main clock item for the initial launch window on Monday morning, which will be the rule with cumble cloud main concern.”
As was first a week ago, Ula rocked his Atlas 5 rocket from VIF on a one -third trip of a mile for the launch pad on Saturday. Launch teams spent a part of the day to load a rocket -grade kerosene, RP -1 on the rocket in preparation for fuel on the launch day.
The launch is the ULA designation of AV-105 and it will be launched 103rd of Atlas 5 rocket. The ULA mission refers to the Atlas 5 Kuper 2 or simply Kuper 2.
After this launch, there will be a pair of national security missions using the company’s vulcan rocket and then Ula plans to launch its first batch of cuper satellites on the vulcan rocket from Cape Canveral. Unlike Vulcan 27, 45 cuper satellites can be sent to Leo that Atlas 5 can support 5 rockets.
After Monday’s planned launch, ULA will have six and Atlas 5 rockets purchased by Amazon to fly satellites for their constellations. Tech veteran purchased a total of nine, but was first used on a dedicated mission on a dedicated mission, which was made entirely for cuper satellites for dubber satellites dubbed in a mission.
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Amazon is against a regulatory clock to get its satellites in the classroom and in a working constellation. It is required by its agreement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to achieve at least half of the first generation of its employed constellations of over 3,200 satellites in operation by the end of July 2026.
In addition to the remaining Atlas 5 rockets at its disposal, Amazon also bought 38 vulcan rockets, 18 Ariane 6 rockets, 12 new glenn rockets (with another 15 adding option) and three Falcon 9 rockets respectively from Ula, Arianspace, Blue Oralsine and Spacex.
When it announced the purchase of Falcon 9 flights from SpaceX, Amazon said in December 2023 that it would start launching on this rocket in mid -2012. Since then, Amazon has not commented on whether it is still at speed with satellite production or delivery to complete that date.
Both Blue Origin and ArianSpace have not discussed their launch manifest in public settings on a large scale, but the two companies are targeting for their next launch in the August deadline nor will the project be with the project Kuper satellites on the board. It is not clear that when the first cuper launch will be with those rockets.
Take a look at it @Ulalaunch The clip of the first cuper satellites is being released in the orbit of the Earth, which is about 280 miles from the planet. The launch is followed by deployment over a period of 15 minutes, with satellites releasing three at a time from the dispenser system. pic.twitter.com/bz1Zuy3ivs
– Project Kuper (@Projectkuiper) 2 May, 2025
It created a new page on its website on June 10, 2025, stating that it included “recent and upcoming project Kuper Mission.” Until June 15, the page did not include references for any other launch, which was designated as KA-02 and already launched Ka-01, which was removed on 28 April.
“Ula will deploy satellites at an altitude of 280 miles (450 km) above the Earth, at the point at which the project Kuper Team Redmund, will command the mission from our 24/7 Mission Operations Center in Washington, Washington, Satellite confirms health, and eventually grows its unconnected arbits of 392 miles (630 km).
This second flight to Amazon is a Lagi to its constellation to 54 satellites, which requires a little more than a year over a year for more than 1,600. In a post on LinkedIn, Rajiv Badial, vice -president of technology at Project Kuper, said the April launch made him optimistic about the company’s direction.
“The success of the Kuper Mission on our first full scale in April meant that we could immediately go to our next launch,” Baddal wrote. “All 27 satellites for our KA-02 mission were fully integrated within 17 days of that first launch, and Ula planned to send them to class next Monday. Thank you for the entire team for quick turnout.
An important test for Amazon will be how soon it can return to the pad with its satellites, which rockets will be ready to blow them.
