Watch Atlas V rocket launch 1st big batch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites today

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Amazon’s first big batch of Project Kuiper broadband satellites will take flight today (April 9), and you can watch the action live.

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch 27 Project Kuiper satellites from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today during a two-hour window that opens at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT).

You can watch the liftoff live here at Space.com courtesy of ULA or directly via the company. Coverage will start at 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT).

a white and copper-colored rocket stage is hauled in its horizontal configuration toward a large processing building while four people in hard hats watch — The first stage of the ULA Atlas V rocket that will launch the Kuiper 1 mission goes vertical at at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ahead of a planned April 9 launch. (Image credit: ULA)

Project Kuiper is Amazon’s planned broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. The initial network will consist of about 3,200 satellites, Amazon representatives have said.