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# SpaceX Launches Fourth Batch of Project Kuiper Satellites
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/spacex-launches-fourth-batch-of-project-kuiper-satellites/
- Published: 2025-08-12T21:25:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T05:47:42.000Z
- Description: Amazon is trying to catch up to Starlink.
- Author: Patricia Blume
- Tags: Satellite, Project Kuiper, SpaceX, Elon Musk, Amazon, FCC, LEO, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, #with-siderail

WASHINGTON, August 12, 2025 – Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellites are gaining altitude, thanks to assistance from its biggest rival. 

[Despite weather delays](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/nab-ctia-wrote-d-c-mayor-in-2024-about-horrifying-violence-trump-just-replied/), SpaceX successfully launched 24 additional low-Earth orbit satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper on Monday. The KF-02 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, bringing Kuiper’s broadband constellation to more than 100 satellites in orbit. 

 “Another 24 Kuiper satellites have been deployed into low Earth orbit,” [Project Kuiper ](https://x.com/ProjectKuiper?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com)posted on X. “Thank you to SpaceX for the second of three launches together."

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The mission marks the second time Amazon’s Kuiper and **Elon Musk**’s SpaceX have teamed up.

Kuiper’s deployment began in April 2025, launching the first 27 satellites. In less than four months,[ 102 Kuiper satellites have been deployed. ](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/ulas-atlas-v-launches-second-batch-of-satellites-for-amazons-project-kuiper/)

Although that is still only a fraction of the 3,236 satellites it plans to deploy in hopes of providing internet connectivity to 400 million to 500 million households.

With just under a year to go to meet the Federal Communications Commission’s deadline of launching roughly half of its satellites by July 2026, the pressure is mounting.