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Watch live: ULA Atlas 5 launches with 27 Kuiper satellites for Amazon's Starlink rival
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| April 28, 2025
| Spaceflight Now
Posted on 04/28/2025 2:25:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Watch live coverage of the launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the first 27 operational satellites for Amazon's Kuiper internet service on Monday, April 28, 2025. Liftoff is anticipated at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 UTC), which is the opening of a two-hour launch window. Watch live: ULA Atlas 5 launches with 27 Kuiper satellites for Amazon's Starlink rival | launches about 7 pm
LIVE (no duration shown) | Spaceflight Now | 360K subscribers | circa 1900 watching now | Started streaming 17 minutes ago
[Firefly had to scrub yesterday, they were going to launch a Lockheed sat that was described as about the size of a fridge. BTW, ULA is partly owned Lockheed, last I knew, and was possibly up for sale, if you happen to have a few billion around.
I'm streaming this on the Roku, and the narration is a little ahead of the stream here on the laptop. Not sure I'd noticed that before, and once in a while I do have it up in both places for brief periods.]
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: amazon; amazonrocket; amazonstarlink; elonmusk; falcon9; godsgravesglyphs; jeffbezos; kuiper; spacex; ula
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posted on
04/28/2025 2:25:28 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/28/2025 2:28:15 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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posted on
04/28/2025 2:34:58 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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posted on
04/28/2025 2:35:13 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
SpaceX is way, way ahead in this game. Just sayin'.
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posted on
04/28/2025 2:39:41 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: FreedomPoster
Competition is good.
The standard of living for the world is going up.
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posted on
04/28/2025 2:41:33 PM PDT
by
marktwain
To: SunkenCiv
Bezos day late and a dollar short, or at least a successful in house rocket, he will never make the deadline to have enough working satellites in orbit.
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posted on
04/28/2025 3:16:18 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
To: marktwain
Agreed.
Cruise ship I was on recently used StarLink. Except when we were in Busan, SK, for a day. Apparently StarLink does not yet have full operations in SK, shows as “Waitlist” on their map. Worked great in/near Japan.
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posted on
04/28/2025 3:19:24 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks for the heads-up! I have it on the YouTube app on ROKU. The weather looks kinda iffy…. Hope they get it up…
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posted on
04/28/2025 3:26:36 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: Mastador1
It’s not so much the number of satellites in orbit, but the number that are visible from a given location and the bandwidth available. Kuiper sats are higher altitude and using Ka band which can offer more bandwidth.
To: telescope115
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posted on
04/28/2025 7:13:34 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: FreedomPoster
Definitely. Fewer than 12K satellites are in orbit, almost one fifth of those went up in 2023, 2024 must have been a higher number, and SpaceX's launch cadence has risen in 2025 I think. We are living through the second great period of the Space Age, and it is going to last until the third great period, which will be human landings on Mars, the beginning of a new Great Migration period.
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posted on
04/28/2025 7:17:31 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Mastador1
He’ll probably make a go of it though. His main impediment is that he’s really just a salesman, rather than his engineering and programming educational background, and more concerned about making some kind of big name for himself.
I do wonder what will happen with the TVs and satellite mobile phones from Musk’s companies. I suppose we’ll see the Antifa and other leftist trash try to vandalize those as well.
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posted on
04/28/2025 7:21:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
I DID see the second launch, but they cut out the video before satellite deployment. I didn’t go to bed “empty handed”, lol.
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posted on
04/29/2025 4:09:09 AM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: telescope115
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posted on
04/29/2025 5:42:48 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
Following the liftoff from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, the Falcon 9 first stage booster returned to a landing at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, while the second stage of the rocket placed the Dragon capsule into orbit.
Aboard Dragon Endurance were Crew-10 Commander Anne McClain, Pilot Nichole Ayers, Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi and Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov.
Video highlights of the launch of the Crew 10 mission, which lifted off on March 14, 2025, with three astronauts and a cosmonaut to relieve Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
Videographers: Adam Bernstein, Pete Carstens and Chuck and Jen Briggs.
Addition video: NASA and SpaceX.
Video edited by Adam Bernstein.Best camera views: SpaceX launches
Crew-10 to the International Space Station | 8:44
Spaceflight Now | 361K subscribers | 9,152 views | April 30, 2025
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posted on
05/01/2025 6:30:40 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 23 satellites for the Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 10:34 p.m. EDT (0234 UTC) on Monday, April 28. The first-stage booster, making its 1st flight, will land on SpaceX's drone ship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas', stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, a little more than eight minutes after launch.Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches
from Kennedy Space Center with 23 Starlink satellites | 1:17:56
Spaceflight Now | 361K subscribers | 109,776 views | Streamed live on April 28, 2025
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posted on
05/01/2025 6:30:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 28 satellites for the company's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Thursday, May 1, at 9:51 p.m. EDT (0151 UTC on May 2). The first-stage booster making its 18th flight, tail number B1080, will land on SpaceX's droneship 'Just Read the Instructions', stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, a little more than eight minutes after leaving the launch pad.
The mission, designated Starlink 6-75, will take a south-easterly trajectory on departure from Florida's Space Coast.
Commentary will be provided by Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith, starting approximately an hour prior to liftoff.Watch live: 28 Starlink satellites launch from
Cape Canaveral on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket | LIVE
Spaceflight Now | 361K subscribers | 2844 watching now | Started streaming 30 minutes ago
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posted on
05/01/2025 6:31:00 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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posted on
05/01/2025 6:45:26 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
Clouds😞 I did get a glimpse of it.
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posted on
05/01/2025 6:59:30 PM PDT
by
pnz1
("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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