Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date

An Amazon Leo terminal being installed. | Image: Amazon

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company's space-internet work Leo (formerly known arsenic Project Kuiper) volition "launch successful mid-2026." I'm going to presume that means due commercialized availability since the institution already announced the commencement of an "enterprise preview" astatine the extremity of 2025, erstwhile the work was expected to primitively launch.

Unlike SpaceX's Starlink service, Amazon doesn't (yet) person its ain fleet of rockets to regularly nonstop Leo satellites into low-Earth orbit. That's meant hitching rides with a assortment of motorboat partners, including SpaceX, until Jeff Bezos's ain reusable New Glenn rocket is afloat operational.

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