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Live coverage: ULA to launch 29 Amazon Leo satellites on Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral - Spaceflight Now
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United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 551 launched from Cape Canaveral on May 29, 2026, carrying 29 Amazon low‑Earth-orbit satellites as part of Amazon’s broadband constellation buildout. The mission used the heavy Atlas V 551 configuration to place a large commercial batch into LEO, joining a wave of recent communications and navigation deployments. Alongside recent SpaceX and Falcon Heavy missions, the launch highlights a busy commercial and national-security launch cadence and continued expansion of global satellite communications and positioning capacity.
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