SpaceX has launched the Amazonas Nexus satellite for Hispasat on a Falcon 9 rocket from SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff occurred at 8:32 PM EST on Monday, Feb. 6 (01:32 UTC on Tuesday, Feb. 7) under extremely favorable weather conditions.
Amazonas Nexus will provide communications for all of the Americas — including Greenland as well as maritime shipping corridors — and marks the first time an Amazonas satellite was launched on a Falcon 9, with previous missions flying on either Ariane 5 or Proton-M.