8.08.2025
Scrub! Live updates from SpaceX's Amazon satellite launch attempt at Cape Canaveral, Florida
crub recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the unsuccessful Thursday, Aug. 7, liftoff attempt of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Amazon Project Kuiper KF-02 mission.
Original story: Look for a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch this rainy morning, carrying another batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit.
Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage of today's SpaceX KF-02 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX is now targeting 10:17 a.m. to send up the Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 40. The rocket will deploy the 24 Kuiper satellites 289 miles above the Earth's surface.
Despite morning showers across Florida's Space Coast, the Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron pegged the odds of "go for launch" weather at 80%, citing cumulus clouds as the primary concern.
No Brevard County sonic booms should occur. After soaring skyward along a northeasterly trajectory, the rocket's first-stage booster will target landing aboard the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas out at sea.
When SpaceX's live webcast begins about 15 minutes before liftoff, we’ll post it below next to our countdown clock.
SpaceX to try to launch again Friday morning
Update 10:06 a.m.: SpaceX officials just confirmed this morning's mission was postponed "to perform additional vehicle checkouts."
The new 25-minute launch window will open at 9:40 a.m. Friday.
SpaceX rocket launch scrub confirmed
Update 9:53 a.m.: Brevard County Emergency Management officials have confirmed that this morning's launch attempt has been called off.
SpaceX launch try is apparently scrubbed
Update 9:48 a.m.: Still no word from SpaceX, but today's launch attempt appears to be postponed. Now, Friday's 25-minute backup launch window will open at 9:40 a.m.
SpaceX countdown clock freezes on website
Update 9:36 a.m.: The countdown clock on SpaceX's newly revamped website has frozen 45 minutes, 29 seconds before liftoff.
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Update: 11.08.2025
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Falcon 9 rocket launching Amazon satellites on SpaceX’s 100th mission of the year after delays: Watch it live on Aug. 11
Liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of Amazon Project Kuiper spacecraft is scheduled for 8:35 a.m. ET (1235 GMT) on Monday (Aug. 11).
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites sits on the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025. After a scrub for recovery weather, the launch has been reset for Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX will launch its 100th mission of the year on Monday (Aug. 11), and you can watch the action live.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday during a 27-minute window that opens at 8:35 a.m. ET (1235 GMT).
The first two attempts at this launch on Saturday (Aug. 9) and Sunday (Aug. 10) were scrubbed due to poor weather conditions, first at the launch site and then for recovery, respectively. SpaceX will stream Monday's liftoff live via its websiteand X account, beginning about 15 minutes before liftoff.
Monday's launch will be the 97th Falcon 9 liftoff of the year already and SpaceX's 100th mission of 2025 overall. The other three were suborbital test flights of Starship, the huge, reusable vehicle that the company is developing to help humanity settle Mars.
SpaceX also operates a third rocket, the Falcon Heavy, which hasn't flown since October 2024, when it sent NASA's Europa Clipper probe toward the Jupiter system.
If SpaceX maintains its current pace, it will launch about 163 times this year. That would break the company's single-year record of 138, which it set in 2024. (Last year's breakdown: 132 Falcon 9 liftoffs, two Falcon Heavy launches and four Starship test flights.)
More than 70% of this year's Falcon 9 launches have been dedicated to building out Starlink, SpaceX's broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit (LEO). Starlink currently consists of more than 8,100 operational satellites, and it's growing all the time.
Project Kuiper, Amazon's version of Starlink, is still in the early buildout stage. Today's launch will be just the fourth Kuiper liftoff to date and will bring the number of satellites in the new constellation to 102.
Kuiper will eventually consist of over 3,200 spacecraft, which will be lofted on more than 80 launches over the next few years. A variety of rockets will do this work; in addition to the Falcon 9, Amazon has enlisted Arianespace's Ariane 6, Blue Origin's New Glenn and United Launch Alliance's Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur.
If all goes to plan on Monday, the Falcon 9's first stage will return to Earth about 8.5 minutes after liftoff, touching down in the Atlantic Ocean on the SpaceX drone ship "A Shortfall of Gravitas."
It will be the debut flight for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description. That's quite rare, as the company is known for its rocket reuse; its most-flown Falcon 9 has 29 flights under its belt.
The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, will continue carrying the 24 Project Kuiper satellites to LEO. They'll be deployed over a 7.5-minute span beginning about 56 minutes after liftoff, if all goes to plan.
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Update: 12.08.2025
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SpaceX launch photos: Amazon satellite mission Aug. 11 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
After a string of unsuccessful attempts, SpaceX finally launched Amazon's latest batch of 24 Project Kuiper satellites into low-Earth orbit at 8:35 a.m. Monday, Aug. 11, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX' s photogenic Falcon 9 morning liftoff on Amazon's KF-02 mission clocked in as the 67th orbital rocket launch thus far during 2025 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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