Arianespace
Ariane 64 Fires Up for Amazon Leo—Internet From Orbit
Target NET
4/30/2026, 8:08:00 AM
Launch Site
Ariane Launch Area 4
Rocket Configuration
Ariane 64
Mission Broadcast Area
Awaiting Official Live Stream
Launch is more than 1 hour away. Video may show a previous scrubbed attempt or holding screen.
Mission Overview
The Ariane 64 Amazon Leo launch date is set. 32 satellites ride fire into low Earth orbit to beam broadband across the planet.
Mission Details & Analysis
Guiana breathes. The pad glows.
T-minus ticks like a blade. Ariane 64 Amazon Leo launch date arrives 2026-04-30T08:08:00Z. 32 satellites wait in the skin of aluminum and nerve. Amazon Leo wants to drown cables in static and sky. The equator leans in to help.
64 boosters, 98 planes, 3 layers.
Four solids claw off the pad first. Core P135 burns clean but rude. We are at Ariane Launch Area 4, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana, where jungle sweats and guidance never forgets. Arianespace holds the clock. No wind shears. No ghosts. Just math and propellant gossip. The stack will drop Amazon Leo into three orbital layers—590 km, 610 km, 630 km—spinning across 98 planes like a net thrown over a dark pool. Low Earth Orbit is crowded, yes, but altitude buys patience. Latency bleeds away.
Amazon Leo used to hide behind code names.
Kuiper Systems LLC became Amazon Leo and stopped apologizing. 3,276 birds planned. This flight carries 32. Each one is a switchyard in vacuum. Signals will ricochet from dish to dish to dish until forgotten villages load video like it grew on trees. The rocket knows its job. It has no opinions. Just thrust and timing and a promise to vanish into the schedule without drama. We watch the clock exhale.