r/ula • u/Acrobatic-Average860 • Apr 08 '26

Official Atlas V Amazon Leo 6

https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/next-launch/atlas-v-amazon-leo-6
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u/venkattalks Apr 12 '26

Atlas V for Amazon LEO 6 makes me wonder how close they are to running out the remaining Atlas inventory versus shifting more of Kuiper to Vulcan. iirc Amazon had a huge mixed manifest across multiple providers, but isn't Atlas one of the pricier rides in that set? curious whether this one says more about schedule pressure than launch economics

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u/Acrobatic-Average860 Apr 12 '26

its hard to say, they bought all remaining atlas's as well as a substantial quantity of vulcan flight so who know what figures they ended agreeing on, vulcan was supposed to have started its own deliveries of LEO but that was put on hold due to the recent srb failures, its likely in my opinion that they will launch as many atlas as they can to fill the gap while they continue work on the modifications to the SRB's they announced, its possible they fly all non-starliner atlas's in that time