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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-08-10, 13:13 | |


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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-08-10, 09:13 (EDT) | | Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA | | Booster | B1091-1 (new booster!)| | Landing | A Shortfall of Gravitas | | Payload | 24 Kuiper Satellites | | Payload mass | unknown | | Customer | Amazon Kuiper Systems | | Target orbit | LEO |

Webcasts

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEVD9hnk0YU (scrub 2) | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l0R4vGU-i0 (scrub 2, scrub 1) | | NASASpaceflight | https://youtube.com/watch?v=GFLMJdY4ReM (scrub 2, scrub 1) | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDdEcXChnuI (scrub 2, scrub 1) | | SpaceX | (scrub 2) | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/@thespacedevs/videos |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ First launch of B1091

☑️ 47th launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 6 days, 5:15:10 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 120th landing on ASOG

☑️ 490th Falcon family booster landing, 503rd Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 97th Falcon 9 mission of 2025, 515th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 100th SpaceX mission of 2025, 540th overall (excluding Starship hops)

☑️ 100th SpaceX launch of 2025, 549th overall (including Starship hops)

Mission info

Project Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,236 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km, and 630 km altitude.

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Scrub at T-28 seconds due to weather. It is raining at the pad.

Edit: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1954178713236709862

Due to unfavorable weather, now targeting Sunday, August 10 for Falcon 9’s launch of the @ProjectKuiper KF-02 mission from Florida