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Amazon is moving forward, as planned, with its Leo satellite network after CEO Andy Jassy acknowledged in a letter to shareholders last week that the project was a go. Hit big delay. During the retail giant’s earnings call on Wednesday, Jassy raised the global value of the LEO communications network when the commercial service launches, which he said would be “within a few months.”
Amazon Leo already has deals with companies, including Delta Airlines (which has dedicated half its fleet to connecting to the service in 2028), JetBlue, AT&T, Vodafone, DirecTV, and NASA, and is positioning itself as a major competitor to Amazon Leo. Elon Musk’s Starlink service With ambitions to provide affordable high-speed internet around the world.
“It will be one of the two offerings that is at the edge of current technology, and I think we will have a meaningful advantage in performance,” Jassy said during the call. “I think we will be about two times better on the downlink than current alternatives, and about six times better on the uplink than current alternatives.”
One could easily view this as a match between David and Goliath, considering Musk’s service. More than 10,000 SpaceX-connected satellites, while Leo will have approximately 250 satellites in space once all satellite launches are complete.
It sounds like a numbers game, but according to the optimistic Jassy, Amazon’s acquisition of the Globalstar satellite network It is a very important step in getting Leo off the ground (figuratively). Using the Globalstar system “will expand Leo’s satellite network with direct device communication capabilities,” he said. Availability of Global Star Emergency satellite communication to iPhone and Apple watchto text emergency services, request roadside assistance, share locations, and message friends and families during natural disasters.
The name of the game here is connectivity, and as Jassy pointed out during the call, there are still “billions of people around the world who don’t have access to broadband.” If all goes according to plan, Amazon Leo will change that.
“There are many thousands of companies and government assets that people can’t see because they don’t have the right connection. We believe Amazon Leo will solve this problem.”
Last week, Liu suffered another setback after Blue Origin’s New Glenn Mission 3 ended in partial failure when it launched Delivering a satellite to the wrong orbit. Blue Origin, like Amazon, is owned by Jeff Bezos and was supposed to deliver the first commercial payload to a customer, Bluebird 7 Communications satellite of AST SpaceMobile. Amazon did not address this failure and subsequent delay (the FAA grounded the New Glenn vehicle from future missions while it investigated the “mishap”) during its earnings call.
