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Amazon’s Project Kuiper requires 3,236 satellites to orbit to meet its Federal Communications Commission license requirements.
Vodafone/Vodacom expanded its partnership with Amazon’s Project Kuiper earlier this week.
Amazon is finishing a $120 million payload processing facility in Florida for its Project Kuiper constellation.
The VELOCE deployment targets resilient, high-speed mobile connectivity for operations in Brazil’s remote regions, including the Amazon basin where terrestrial infrastructure is non-existent.
ICEYE’s deforestation monitoring tool currently covers the Amazon Basin and will expand to include the Congo Basin and the Southeast Asian Archipelago Rainforest.
Vodafone will use Amazon Leo high-speed satellite backhaul to connect remote 4G and 5G mobile sites in Europe and Africa.
ICEYE’s deforestation monitoring tool addresses monitoring blind spots caused by persistent cloud cover in tropical regions such as the Amazon and Congo Basins.
Amazon Leo entered a strategic agreement with Vanu, Inc. to integrate Vanu’s mobile infrastructure with Amazon’s satellite backhaul.
Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite division was rebranded as Amazon Leo in November 2025, retiring the Project Kuiper name.
Amazon previously signed an agreement with Vodafone and Vodacom to use its LEO network to enhance cellular reach in Europe and Africa.
Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite division was rebranded as Amazon Leo from Project Kuiper in November 2025.
Amazon previously signed an agreement with Vodafone and Vodacom to use Amazon Leo’s LEO network to enhance cellular reach in Europe and Africa.
The Amazon Leo partnership in South America relies on distribution through operators already rooted in local markets.
Software-Defined Radio (SDR) enables modem functionalities to run as software instances on general-purpose computing infrastructure, allowing operators to provision capacity with the elasticity of AWS or Azure cloud resources.
Amazon expects to have 700 satellites in orbit by July 2026, which would make Amazon Leo the second-largest deployed LEO constellation by satellite count after Starlink.
Amazon filed with the Federal Communications Commission for a two-year extension of a pending July milestone to have half of its 3,232-satellite constellation deployed.
Amazon debuted a consumer offering called Leo Ultra that advertises 400 Mbps upload and 1 Gbps download speeds with private direct access to AWS.
Amazon’s Leo Systems was in deployment and ramp phase and argued that a five-year deorbit requirement imposes disproportionate burdens on operators without high-turnover, mass-production business models.
Amazon, Google, Nvidia, and SpaceX have committed to early trials of orbital data centers.
Amazon expects to increase CapEx on Amazon Leo by $1 billion in 2026 with 20 more launches that year and more than 30 launches in 2027.