A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Amazon's Project Kuiper KF-02 mission to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 8:35 a.m. on 11 August 2025. Following stage separation, Falcon 9's first stage landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

This is the first flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission.

Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network, and our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world. Our initial satellite constellation will include more than 3,200 spacecraft, which we began deploying in April 2025 when we sent our first 27 satellites into space. That mission was the first of more than 80 to deploy our constellation.

Our next mission, KF-02, [....] will be our second Kuiper launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will send another 24 Kuiper satellites into orbit, bringing the total number of Kuiper spacecraft deployed to date to 102 satellites.

SpaceX will deploy the satellites at an altitude of 289 miles (465 kilometers) above Earth, at which point the Project Kuiper team will take over command of the mission. After [we have] made contact with the satellites and completed activation and health checks, we will gradually raise the satellites to their assigned altitude of 392 miles (630 km).