Amazon’s satellite internet service, which is meant to go against Starlink, has a new launch date
CEO Andy Jassy has said that the company’s space internet service Leo will “launch in mid-2026,” which is assumed to be the proper commercial availability, since there has already been an “enterprise preview” since the end of 2025, according to The Verge.
So far, Amazon has FCC approval for 3,236 Leo satellites but has launched only 241 — well below the commitment to have half of its constellation (1,618) deployed by July, 2026, which led to Amazon practically begging FCC Chair Brendan Carr for an extension (lol).
For comparison, Starlink’s active constellation currently totals over 10,000 satellites.
With this in mind, Amazon also doesn’t have its own fleet of rockets yet to regularly send Leo satellites into low-Earth orbit. That essentially means the company has had to deploy its satellites with a variety of launch partners, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, until Jeff Bezos’ own reusable New Glenn rocket is fully operational.
Whenever the Leo service does go live, Jassy has said that it will be both faster than existing services and cost less, with an added benefit being that it is integrated seamlessly with AWS so that businesses and governments can “move data back and forth for storage, analytics, and AI (of course).”
Source: The Verge
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