Space News by Jeff Foust July 16, 2025
SpaceX provided a lift for a competitor in the satellite broadband sector with the Falcon 9 launch of spacecraft for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation July 16.
A Falcon 9 lifted off at 2:30 a.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. SpaceX reported the successful deployment of 24 Project Kuiper satellites 65 minutes later.
The launch, designated KF-01 by Amazon, is the first of three Falcon 9 missions for Kuiper satellites. Amazon announced in December 2023 a contract with SpaceX for those launches, saying those additional launches would allow Amazon to “to reduce schedule risk and move faster” in the deployment of the broadband constellation.
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