Kuiper · Communications
KUIPER-00052
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KUIPER-00052 is a Amazon (Project Kuiper) communications satellite, part of the Kuiper constellation, launched on June 23, 2025 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas V 551 →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- Amazon Leo (KA-02)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 212 km
- Periapsis
- 203 km
- Inclination
- 51.83°
- Orbital period
- 88.65 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Amazon (Project Kuiper)
- Manufacturer
- Amazon
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 490 kg
- Design lifetime
- 7 years
- Detailed purpose
- Broadband internet
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2025-134N
- NORAD catalog №
- 64512
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Constellation
- Kuiper
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 2, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 2, 2026
- Time in service
- 252 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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