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5h to Atlas V launch with two project kuiper prototype satellites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhxpuiOUZIc

https://www.space.com/ula-atlas-v-amazon-internet-satellite-launch-webcast
> Liftoff is scheduled to occur during a two-hour window that opens at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) today (Oct. 6).
> The first two prototype satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation will lift off today (Oct. 6), and you can watch the action live.
> A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the two spacecraft is scheduled to lift off today from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a two-hour window that opens at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT). There's a 70% chance the weather will cooperate, according to ULA.
> If all goes according to plan, the duo, called Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2, will be deployed into a 311-mile-high (500 kilometers) orbit about 18 minutes after liftoff, according to ULA.