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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper) - SLC-40 - CCSFS - August 11, 2025

Launch Date: August 11, 2025 Launch Time: 8:35 a.m. EDT (1225 UTC, 14:25 CEST) Launch Window: Available to 9:02 a.m. EDT. Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA Targe...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper internet service

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with a batch of 24 satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper internet service, a rival to the Starlink network. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex ...

🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Project Kuiper (KF-02)

SpaceX launch of a batch of Kuiper satellites for Amazon's high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation. Project Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that wi...

KF-02 Mission

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Project Kuiper (KF-02)

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1091 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

Second of a three launches contract for Amazon's Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation. 24 satellites are on board.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 11, 2025, 1:49 p.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 11, 2025, 12:35 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Aug. 11, 2025, 12:18 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 10, 2025, 5:27 p.m.

Setting GO.


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 10, 2025, 1:30 p.m.

Scrubbed for the day due to recovery zone weather.


Falcon 9

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Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
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  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
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  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
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  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Booster Info


B1091

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: August 11, 2025
Last Flight: October 14, 2025
Flights: 2
Landings Attempted: 2
Landings Successful: 2

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 1st stage B1091 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 1st flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at A Shortfall of Gravitas.

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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