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Amazon Leo
Amazon Leo is about to launch its LE-01 "Leo Europe 1" mission on an Ariane 64 rocket from the Guiana Space Centre. This flight will add 32 satellites to low Earth orbit, bringing the total to 212 as Amazon builds a 3000+ satellite constellation for global internet coverage.
It’s also the very first heavy lift launch on Amazon Leo’s 2026 manifest and the first of 18 missions planned with Arianespace aka, the start of a very busy space calendar.
Amazon Leo just introduced Leo Ultra, a slick, weather resistant phased array terminal that can push up to 1 Gbps down and 400 Mbps up from low Earth orbit. It’s built for remote mines, farms, logistics hubs, and more, with advanced encryption, 24/7 support, and direct networking into AWS and private data centers so teams can run real‑time monitoring and cloud workloads literally off the grid.
ULA Kuiper 2 Mission: Amazon’s Satellite Internet
Analysts are skeptical whether Amazon Project Kuiper will break the hegemony of Starlink in space, as Amazon is lagging six years behind Spa
Discover Amazon's Kuiper satellite launch scheduled for April 9, 2025, by launching 27 satellites to provide global broadband connectivity,
Satellite-based internet networking is a growing and intensive market. Elon Musk’s Starlink has already launched 8,000 satellites in space a
Amazon's Rival to Starlink Takes Critical Step Toward Deployment
Amazon’s Kuiper low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network passed a significant milestone when its two orbiting satellites were able to communicate with each other at high data transfer speeds using Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) technology, the company revealed last week. https://jpmellojr.blogspot.com/2023/12/amazons-rival-to-starlink-takes.html
“We’ll definitely be beta testing with commercial customers in 2024,” Dave Limp, head of Amazon devices, said at a conference in Washington.
The “standard customer terminal”, 11-inch square antennas for the Kuiper network, will cost Amazon less than $400 each to produce and provide Internet speeds of 400Mbit/s for customers, the company said.
Up until now, Starlink has been unable to obtain a communications license to operate over South Africa, but I’m thinking that Amazon will be able to, mainly because it has quite physical presence on the ground in South Africa.
But I’m also wondering what a satellite service means for spying (I’ve not forgotten about the US government’s NSA and AT&T’s collusion on phone spying). Recent rumours also have it the Chinese wanted to spy on undersea Internet cables for the islands around Taiwan. So it is safer to just assume everyone is spying on your communications, and your own government is also not necessarily the “good guy”.
See https://techcentral.co.za/amazon-targets-2024-for-launch-of-starlink-rival/
