| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-08-10, 13:13 |
|---|---|
| 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
| Stream | Link |
|---|---|
| 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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Scrub due to no-go on recovery weather.
NSF are live: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GFLMJdY4ReM
Propellant loading is underway. T-20 minute vent.
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
NSF are live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msIG_FCAbrE
Propellant loading is underway.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1953797386569970057
Now targeting Saturday, August 9 for launch of the KF-02 mission from pad 40 in Florida. Teams are keeping an eye on weather, which is currently 35% favorable for liftoff
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1953455966386585815
Standing down from today’s launch of the @ProjectKuiper KF-02 mission to perform additional vehicle checkouts. Now targeting tomorrow, August 8 for liftoff
New T-0 is 2025-08-08, 13:40 UTC.
