Take An Atlas V 'Rocket Cam' Ride To Space With Amazon's Project Kuiper Satellites

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched two prototype satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. See rocket camera footage of the launch here.   Credit: ULA

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00:00 We have ignition and liftoff of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the

00:09 proto-flight mission for Amazon's Project Kuiper.

00:13 Program is in.

00:31 Flight rates look good, acceleration looks good.

00:41 Maneuver is expected.

01:03 One minute in, everything looking good.

01:08 Vehicle is now four miles in altitude, point three miles downrange.

01:19 Traveling at 1,250 miles per hour.

01:22 Everything looking good.

01:26 Mach one.

01:28 Vehicle is now supersonic.

01:32 Max Q.

01:34 Coming up on our first throttle segment.

01:43 And our first throttle segment is engaged.

01:55 Remember, looking forward to my closed-loop updates.

02:19 Ignition is in, everything looking good.

02:31 Coming up on our next throttle phase, we'll be limiting the vehicle acceleration to 2.5 Gs for payload-bearing jets.

02:45 Lifting acceleration at 2.5 Gs, everything looking good.

02:49 Inside of two minutes to be go.

03:15 Everything looking good.

03:18 Mission operating as expected, smooth body rates.

03:32 And vehicle has passed through the Karman line.

03:37 We have exited the Earth's atmosphere.

03:39 Coming up on fairing jet, we've had fairing jettison and seal-off deck jettison.

03:44 Everything looks good, nice and smooth.

03:45 We are throttling up.

03:48 Inside of one minute to be go.

03:54 And we are less than a quarter of our lift-off weight at this time.

03:59 And starting our 4G throttling, our G-limiting phase of the mission.

04:07 And one minute to be go.

04:26 And boost phase chill has been in progress.

04:28 Engine temperature is reducing as expected.

04:35 Coming up on BECO, and we have cutoff.

04:40 Everything looks good.

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