ULA lists Friday, November 13, 2026, for the Vulcan Leo 1 (LV-01) launch carrying 40 Amazon Leo satellites from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Amazon Leo says the target date is pending range approval and reports that all 40 satellites have been integrated with the rocket, with final processing underway.
LV-01’s payload and rocket configuration
ULA’s mission plan pairs the 40-satellite payload with a Vulcan VC6L rocket. Its Centaur V upper stage is optimized for low Earth orbit, and six GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters are mounted alongside the core vehicle. ULA lists Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as the launch site.
| Mission detail | LV-01 plan |
| Scheduled date | Friday, November 13, 2026, pending range approval |
| Payload | 40 Amazon Leo satellites |
| Rocket | Vulcan VC6L with a low-Earth-orbit-optimized Centaur V and six GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters |
| Payload fairing | 21.3 meters long and 5.4 meters in diameter |
| Launch site | Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida |
Amazon Leo says the satellites were integrated with Vulcan at its Vertical Integration Facility-A (VIF-A) at Cape Canaveral. The company describes the payload as its largest to date. That preparation update and the listed target date put the mission’s status in concrete terms: integration was complete, while final processing was still underway.
Why LV-01 is a planned return to flight
On October 28, SpaceNews reported that United Launch Alliance (ULA) planned to resume Vulcan launches in mid-November after a nine-month pause following a solid rocket booster anomaly. LV-01 is the mission listed for that return; ULA’s mission page identifies it as the first of 38 Vulcan launches for Amazon.
ULA says eight earlier successful Amazon Leo deployment missions used Atlas V. The planned Vulcan flight therefore begins a separate sequence of Amazon launches on ULA’s newer rocket. The reported reassignment of two Space Force missions from Vulcan to Falcon Heavy concerned different flights, as NeoTeo covered earlier.
