Overview
- ULA’s Atlas V lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 8:53 p.m. EDT Monday carrying 29 Amazon Leo broadband satellites.
- The flight set the fastest Atlas V turnaround at Space Launch Complex‑41 at 23 days and 19 hours since the previous launch.
- ULA achieved the speedup by rolling the rocket to the pad Monday morning and using split crews under a compressed roll‑to‑launch flow.
- The mission, called Amazon Leo 6, became the constellation’s 10th launch and brought the on‑orbit total to 270 satellites.
- Amazon plans an initial network of more than 3,200 low‑Earth‑orbit satellites to extend high‑speed internet to homes and communities without reliable access.