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Europe's most powerful rocket will roar into action early Thursday morning (April 30), and you can watch the action live.

An Ariane 6 rocket launches 32 Amazon Leo satellites to orbit from French Guiana on Feb. 12, 2026. (Image credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace-ArianeGroup/Optique Video du CSG-P. Piron)

Amazon Leo, previously known as Project Kuiper, is Amazon's answer to SpaceX 's Starlink broadband megaconstellation. It won't be as big, however; Amazon Leo will eventually consist of about 3,200 satellites, whereas Starlink has more than 10,000 spacecraft (and counting).

Those 3,200 satellites will be lofted over the course of more than 80 launches, sent up by a variety of rockets — the Ariane 6, SpaceX's Falcon 9 and United Launch Alliance's Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur.

Just 10 of those missions have lifted off to date.…