Amazon’s long-delayed satellite internet service is finally getting close to actually launching. In his latest letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company is “on the verge” of launching Leo, Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite internet service, and expects it to go live in mid-2026.
This puts Amazon much closer to finally challenging SpaceX’s Starlink, even if it is still arriving years later than its biggest rival.
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Jassy said Amazon already has 200 low-orbit satellites in space and plans to add a “few thousand more” in the years ahead. But the first release is set to kick off in the middle of this year. To recall, Leo was originally conceived as Project Kuiper back in 2019, being renamed last year
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