Amazon Leo

Arianespace has completed the first Ariane 6 mission using the more powerful P160C boosters that enabled the company to deliver 36 Amazon Leo satellite to low Earth orbit.

The Federal Communications Commission granted Amazon a limited, conditional waiver of its requirement to meet a 50% deployment milestone for the company’s Leo broadband-internet constellation.

Delta Air Lines remains “very confident” that it can introduce Amazon Leo inflight connectivity (IFC) as planned.

Blue Origin had hoped for a quick turnaround between the problematic third flight of its New Glenn heavy-lift launcher and flight four.

Vast expands into satellite bus manufacturing with 15-kW spacecraft for Earth observation and AI applications.

China’s megaconstellations threaten to shift the balance of power in space.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is preparing for the first launch of its Vulcan rocket in support of Amazon’s Leo broadband constellation deployment.

Arianespace deployed another 32 Amazon Leo satellites to low Earth orbit, boosting the constellation to more than 300 spacecraft.

A ULA Atlas V rocket lifted off April 27, carrying the next batch of 29 broadband satellites to low Earth orbit for Amazon’s growing constellation.

Airbus has introduced a more flexible version of its HBCplus connectivity hardware system.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Amazon Leo has introduced a gigabit-speed antenna that will connect commercial airliners to the huge low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation it is building out.

At the intersection of changing customer expectations and next-generation technologies is an evolution in U.S. airline inflight connectivity.

Amazon has agreed to acquire Globalstar following rival SpaceX’s purchase of EchoStar spectrum in the intensifying battle to offer LEO broadband services.

Delta Air Lines will begin offering Amazon Leo inflight connectivity in 2028, initially making the satellite internet service available on 500 of its aircraft.

Amazon is in talks with United Launch Alliance to potentially accelerate some Atlas V launches for its low-Earth-orbit broadband satellites.

Blue Origin is asking the FCC to launch and operate a 51,600-member sat network for space-based data centers and AI computing services.

A new U.S. Army online marketplace for counter uncrewed aircraft systems is now hosting more than 90 products.

—Arianespace achieved a double-first with the inaugural flight of the Ariane 64 launcher configuration and satellite deployment.

Amazon has started shipping “preview” examples of its 1-Gbps flat panel satellite antenna to enterprise customers to test using its Leo satellite constellation.

Amazon has rebranded its Project Kuiper satellite internet constellation to “Amazon Leo,” signaling that it is moving from R&D toward commercial operations.

There is serious interest in orbiting data centers for artificial intelligence.

Jeff Bezos, executive chairman of Amazon.com and founder of Blue Origin, foresees gigawatt data centers orbiting Earth in the coming decades.

The e-commerce giant has multiple advantages over competitors when it comes to building out a satellite internet network.

The latest trend in satellite development is two-dimensional: flat sats.