It's launch day for Amazon's first-ever payload of 27 production satellites for the ecommerce giant's future Project Kuiper internet constellation! Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage of tonight’s United Launch Alliance KA-01 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Mighty ULA Atlas V rocket with 5 solid boosters will launch first batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites to low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral

During the first quarter of the year, 27 orbital rockets took flight from Florida's Space Coast. That equates to a cadence of 108 launches by year's end — a record-breaking pace that would erase last year's record of 93 annual liftoffs.