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Photo: United Launch Alliance.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) will send another batch of Amazon Internet satellites into orbit on Monday morning (December 15), and you'll be able to watch the action live – if you're a night owl or an early riser.
And I like it Atlas V A rocket carrying 27 Amazon Leo spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Florida. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday during a 29-minute window that opens at 3:49 a.m. EST (0849 GMT).
You can watch it live here on Space.com, courtesy of ULA or directly through the company.
United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket will launch the first 27 Internet satellites of Amazon's Project Kuiper (now known as Amazon Leo) into orbit. | Photo: United Launch Alliance.
Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is Amazon's planned satellite Internet megaconstellation in low earth orbit (LEO).
Ultimately the network will consist of approximately 3,200 satelliteswhich will enter orbit in more than 80 launches performed by various rockets. To date, six of these missions have been completed, delivering 153 Project Leo satellites to the final frontier. (These figures do not take into account the test mission, which delivered two satellite prototypes to LEO in October 2023.)
Monday's launch will be Project Leo's fourth mission for the Atlas V, the venerable and highly reliable rocket that debuted in August 2002. ULA is phasing out the Atlas V in favor of a new rocket called Vulcan Centaurwhich currently has three missions under its belt.
When it launches, Project Leo will provide Internet access to people around the world. It will compete with SpaceX. Starlink megaconstellation, which already provides services to customers operating more than 9,000 satellites in Earth orbit. And this number is constantly growing; In 2025 alone, SpaceX launched more than 3,000 Starlink satellites.
Interesting, SpaceX helps create the Project Leo network; his Falcon 9 is among the rockets Amazon used to launch the mega-constellation, along with Arianespace and Blue Origin's Ariane 6. New Glenn and ULA's Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur.
