Watch Atlas V rocket launch 29 Amazon internet satellites to orbit today

Rocket Launch: Amazon Leo 6 - YouTube Watch On A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch 29 of Amazon's internet satellites to orbit tonight (April 27), and you can watch it live. The Atlas V is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight during a 29-minute window that opens at 8:52 p.m. EDT (0052 GMT on April 28). You can watch it live here at Space.com courtesy of ULA, or directly via the company . Coverage will begin about 20 minutes before launch. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on April 4, 2026, carrying 29 satellites for the Amazon Leo broadband constellation. (Image credit: ULA) ULA calls tonight's mission Amazon Leo 6, because it will be the sixth that the company flies to help build out the Amazon Leo broadband constellation in low Earth orbit . The network, a rival to SpaceX's Starlink internet megaconstellation, will eventually consist of more than 3,200 satellites, if all goes to plan. It will take more than 80 launches by a variety of rockets to finish assembling Amazon Leo, which used to be known as Project Kuiper. Just nine of these liftoffs have occurred to date. The Atlas V has flown five of them, SpaceX 's Falcon 9 has launched three and Arianespace's Ariane 6 rocket has launched one. The Ariane 6's tally will increase soon, however; it's scheduled to launch an Amazon Leo mission from French Guiana early on Tuesday morning (April 28). …